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Nightsong : performance, power, and practice in South Africa
- Title
- Nightsong : performance, power, and practice in South Africa / Veit Erlmann ; with an introduction by Joseph Shabalala.
- Author
- Erlmann, Veit.
- Publication
- Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
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- Description
- xxv, 446 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
- Uniform Title
- Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Discography: p. 323-418.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Video Contents -- Figures and Musical Examples -- Introduction: Joseph Bekhizizwe Shabalala: A Unifying Force -- 1. Performance Theorized -- 2. Isicathamiya Performance Represented -- 3. The History of Isicathamiya, 1891-1991 -- 4. The Unhomely: Performers and Migrants -- 5. Ekhaya: The Past, the Home, and the Nation Revived -- 6. The Home Embodied: Dance and Dress in Isicathamiya -- 7. Praise and Prayer: The Rhetoric of Isicathamiya -- 8. Attacking with Song: The Aesthetics of Power and Competition -- 9. "Strengthening Native Home Life": Isicathamiya and Hegemony -- 10. Things Will Come Right: The Political Economy of Noncommercial Performance -- 11. "Two Worlds, One Heart": Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo -- A Select Discography of Isicathamiya.
- ISBN
- 0226217205 (acid-free paper)
- 0226217213 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 94024977
- OCLC
- 31867970
- ocm31867970
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries