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Songs of the Women Migrants : Performance and Identity in South Africa / Deborah James.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International African Library : IALPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748613045
  • 9781474469579
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.80820968 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS, TABLES AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. HOME BOYS, HOME DANCES: MIGRANTS CREATE PAST AND PLACE -- 2. 'THOSE OF MY HOME': MIGRANT WOMEN ON THE REEF -- 3. 'WE ARE VISITORS': MEN'S AND WOMEN'S KIBA -- 4. WOMEN AS BROTHERS, WOMEN AS SONS: DOMESTIC PREDICAMENTS UNRAVELLED -- 5. 'I DRESS IN THIS FASHION': RURAL WOMEN SINGERS AND THE SOTHO LIFE-COURSE -- 6. DISLOCATIONS AND CONTINUITIES: DISRUPTED YOUTH AND ADOLESCENCE -- 7. FAMILY GIFTS, FAMILY SPIRITS -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1: LISTS OF DISCUSSIONS AND INTERPRETERS -- APPENDIX 2: LIST OF KIBA PERFORMANCES -- APPENDIX 3: SELECT DISCOGRAPHY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: This book gives an account of how migrant women, whose lives and experiences have heretofore been neglected in the pages of academic scholarship, dance and sing the vibrant and expressive musical style of kiba. In so doing, they build an identity as autonomous breadwinners whose aspirations and values are nonetheless rooted in 'tradition'.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS, TABLES AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. HOME BOYS, HOME DANCES: MIGRANTS CREATE PAST AND PLACE -- 2. 'THOSE OF MY HOME': MIGRANT WOMEN ON THE REEF -- 3. 'WE ARE VISITORS': MEN'S AND WOMEN'S KIBA -- 4. WOMEN AS BROTHERS, WOMEN AS SONS: DOMESTIC PREDICAMENTS UNRAVELLED -- 5. 'I DRESS IN THIS FASHION': RURAL WOMEN SINGERS AND THE SOTHO LIFE-COURSE -- 6. DISLOCATIONS AND CONTINUITIES: DISRUPTED YOUTH AND ADOLESCENCE -- 7. FAMILY GIFTS, FAMILY SPIRITS -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1: LISTS OF DISCUSSIONS AND INTERPRETERS -- APPENDIX 2: LIST OF KIBA PERFORMANCES -- APPENDIX 3: SELECT DISCOGRAPHY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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This book gives an account of how migrant women, whose lives and experiences have heretofore been neglected in the pages of academic scholarship, dance and sing the vibrant and expressive musical style of kiba. In so doing, they build an identity as autonomous breadwinners whose aspirations and values are nonetheless rooted in 'tradition'.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)