ISBN:
978-1-108-47064-3
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978-1-108--5690-3 /eBook
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 224 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
International African Library 59
Keywords:
Südafrika Zulu
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Radio
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Massenmedien
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Anthropologie, soziale
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Kultur und Gesellschaft
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Apartheid
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Kulturwandel
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Modisane, Bloke [Leben und Werk]
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Nkosi, Lewis [Leben und Werk]
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Buthelezi, Alexius [Leben und Werk]
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Masinga, K. E. [Leben und Werk]
;
Lamula, Petros [Leben und Werk]
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SABC 〉 South African Broadcasting Corporation
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South African Broadcasting Corporation
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BBC 〉 British Broadcasting Corporation
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British Broadcasting Corporation
Abstract:
Zulu Radio in South Africa is one of the most far-reaching and influential media in the region, currently attracting around 6.67 million listeners daily. While the public and political role of radio is well-established, what is less understood is how it has shaped culture by allowing listeners to negotiate modern identities and fast-changing lifestyles. Liz Gunner explores how understandings of the self, family, and social roles were shaped through this medium of voice and mediated sound. Radio was the unseen literature of the auditory, the drama of the airwaves, and thus became a conduit for many talents squeezed aside by apartheid repression. Besides Winnie Mahlangu and K. E. Masinga, among other talents, the exiles Lewis Nkosi and Bloke Modisane made a network of identities and conversations which stretched from the heart of Harlem to the American South, drawing together the threads of activism and creativity from both Black America and the African continent at a critical moment of late empire.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: voice, race, radio -- Part I. Sound and 'migration' -- 1. K. E. Masinga, Zulu Radio and the politics of 'migrant' orality -- 2. Communities through the back door: the radio worlds of Alexius Buthelezi 1961-1978 -- Part II. Distance and intimacy -- 3. Exile: Bloke Modisane and the BBC, 1959-1987 -- 4. 'Africa on the rise': the early 1960s, and the radio voice of Lewis Nkosi -- Part III. Drama, language, and daily life -- 5. Untidy boundaries, restless identities: Zulu serial drama in the 1970s -- 6. Radio drama in the time of violence: Yiz' Uvalo (In Spite of Fear), December 1986 - May 1987 -- 7. 'Ikusasa lethu' (Our Tomorrow): the 'glorious decade'? Radio drama of the 1990s -- 8. Finding a centre -- Conclusion: dances of power -- Bibliography - Index.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 195-210
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