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Title:In the time of cannibals: the word music of South Africa's Basotho migrants
Author:Coplan, David B.ISNI
Year:1994
Pages:300
Language:English
Series:Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
City of publisher:Chicago
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
ISBN:0226115739; 0226115747
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:Sotho
labour migration
oral poetry
Abstract:This study on Sotho aural art is based on later fieldwork carried out among Sotho migrants in South Africa from 1983 onwards and on later fieldwork in Lesotho which aimed at locating Sotho migrant performances in their total context. The book deals with the interpretation of Sotho migrants' auriture; the history of Sotho performances; generations of travelers and their songs; the making of a country traveler; auriture and migrants' labours; the traveling women of eloquence; bar women's auriture and Sotho popular culture; Sotho aural composition and aesthetics; migrants' songs and the meaning of Sesotho.
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