TY  - BOOK
AU  - James,Deborah
TI  - Songs of the Women Migrants: Performance and Identity in South Africa 
T2  - International African Library : IAL
SN  - 9780748613045
U1  - 304.80820968 22
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Black people
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Music
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Migrant labor
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Women employees
KW  - Women singers
KW  - Working class
KW  - Songs and music
KW  - African Studies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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'
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474469579
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474469579
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474469579/original
ER  -