Songs of the Women Migrants Performance and Identity in South Africa.

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This book gives an account of how migrant women dance and sing the vibrant and expressive musical style of kiba.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: James, Deborah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
Series:International African library.
Subjects:
Migrant labor.
Women employees.
Music > Social aspects.
Travailleurs migrants.
Personnel féminin.
Musique > Aspect social.
migrant workers.
Migrant labor
Music > Social aspects
Women employees
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • 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 Singers and the Sotho Life-Course
  • 6 Dislocations and Continuitieis: 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

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