Kwaito's promise : music and the aesthetics of freedom in South Africa /

"In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country's urban black youth developed kwaito--a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generation. In this book, Gavin Steingo examines k...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Steingo, Gavin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Colección:Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.
Temas:
Since 1994
Kwaito (Music) > Social aspects.
Kwaito (Music) > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Kwaito (Music) > Political aspects.
Musicians, Black > South Africa.
Kwaïto > Aspect social.
Kwaïto > Philosophie et esthétique.
Kwaïto > Aspect politique.
Musiciens noirs > Afrique du Sud.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
Musicians, Black
Social conditions
Politik
Musik
Kwaito
South Africa > Social conditions > 1994-
Afrique du Sud > Conditions sociales > 1994-
South Africa
Südafrika
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The struggle of freedom
  • The experience of the outside
  • Platform, or the miracle of the ordinary
  • Immobility, obduracy, and experimentalism in Soweto
  • Acoustic assemblages and forms of life
  • Black diamonds
  • Times and spaces of listening
  • Epilogue.

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