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Kwaito's promise : music and the aesthetics of freedom in South Africa

Autor: Steingo, Gavin
Ort, Verlag, Jahr: Chicago ; London, The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Umfang: xx, 307 Seiten
ISBN/ISSN/ISMN 9780226362403 , 9780226362540
Schlagwortketten: Südafrika / Kwaito / Politischer Wandel / Jugend / Schwarze / Soziale Funktion / Geschichte 1994-2014

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Autor:Steingo, Gavin
Titel:Kwaito's promise
Untertitel:music and the aesthetics of freedom in South Africa
Von:Gavin Steingo
Ort:Chicago ; London
Verlag:The University of Chicago Press
Jahr:[2016]
Jahr:© 2016
Umfang:xx, 307 Seiten
Illustrationsangabe:Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele, Karte
ISBN/ISSN/ISMN:9780226362403
ISBN/ISSN/ISMN:9780226362540
Anmerkungen:Includes bibliographical references and index
Zusammenfassung:In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country s urban black youth developed "kwaito" a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generation. In this book, Gavin Steingo examines kwaito as it has developed alongside the democratization of South Africa over the past two decades. Tracking the fall of South African hope into the disenchantment that often characterizes the outlook of its youth today who face high unemployment, extreme inequality, and widespread crime Steingo looks to kwaito as a powerful tool that paradoxically engages South Africa s crucial social and political problems by, in fact, seeming to ignore them. Politicians and cultural critics have long criticized kwaito for failing to provide any meaningful contribution to a society that desperately needs direction. As Steingo shows, however, these criticisms are built on problematic assumptions about the political function of music. Interacting with kwaito artists and fans, he shows that youth aren t escaping their social condition through kwaito but rather using it to expand their sensory realities and generate new possibilities. Resisting the truism that music is always political, Steingo elucidates a music that thrives on its its radically ambiguous relationship with politics, power, and the state. - Gavin Steingo is assistant professor of music at the University of Pittsburgh.
Reihe:Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Systematik:LQ 92007
Systematik:LS 47945
BV-Nummer:BV043652684
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Andere Ausgabe:Online-Ausgabe
Andere Ausgabe:978-0-226-36268-7
Andere Ausgabe:978-0-226-36268-7