ISBN:
9781498576208
,
9781498576222
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 283 Seiten
,
24 x 16 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Musik
;
Künstler
;
Widerstand
;
Literatur
;
Provinz Ostkap
;
Music / Social aspects / South Africa / Eastern Cape / History
;
Oral tradition / Social aspects / South Africa / Eastern Cape / History
;
Government, Resistance to / South Africa / Eastern Cape / History
;
Xhosa (African people) / South Africa / Eastern Cape / Social conditions
;
Eastern Cape (South Africa) / Social conditions / History
;
Eastern Cape (South Africa) / Race relations / History
;
Government, Resistance to
;
Music / Social aspects
;
Oral tradition / Social aspects
;
Race relations
;
Social conditions
;
Xhosa (African people) / Social conditions
;
South Africa / Eastern Cape
;
History
;
Provinz Ostkap
;
Künstler
;
Widerstand
;
Musik
;
Literatur
Abstract:
"Explores Eastern Cape performance artists, activists, and organizations that used inventive and historical means to protest and resist oppressive authorities and systems while exhibiting their unique culture. Michie analyzes music and oral poetry to study the region's role in the history of South African protest politics and creativity"--
Description / Table of Contents:
"We Create Our Own Language" -- "Unite Like a Ball of Scrapings": Early History to the 1850s -- "Turn Phalo's Land on Its Head": Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- "You Sent Us the Light, We Sit in the Dark": 1920s-1940s -- "A Spirit That Could Not Be Broken": 1950s-1960s -- "A Land in Calamity's Shadow": 1970s-1980s -- "Our Bull Has Escaped from the Pound": 1990s to the Present
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