Sonic spaces of the Karoo : the sacred music of a South African coloured community /

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Sonic Spaces of the Karoo is a pioneering study of the sacred music of three coloured (the apartheid designation for people ""not white or native"") people's church congregations in the rural town of Graaff-Reinet, South Africa. Jorritsma's fieldwork involves an investi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jorritsma, Marie R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
Colección:African soundscapes.
Temas:
Church music > South Africa > Graaff-Reinet.
Church music > Protestant churches.
Colored people (South Africa) > South Africa > Graaff-Reinet > Music > History and criticism.
Musique d'église > Églises protestantes.
MUSIC > Religious > Hymns.
MUSIC > General.
Church music
Church music > Protestant churches
Manners and customs
Graaff-Reinet (South Africa) > Social life and customs.
South Africa > Graaff-Reinet
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the challenges of inscribing coloured voices
  • Karoo people and places
  • Hidden transcripts : how hymns reveal history
  • Senzeni na : interrelationships between the music of mission and independent African church denominations
  • Singing the "Queen's English" : church choirs in Kroonvale
  • Mothers of the church : women's society music and the politics of gender
  • Conclusion : reflections on Karoo sonic spaces.

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