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Songs of the Women Migrants : Performance and Identity in South Africa
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Title
Songs of the Women Migrants : Performance and Identity in South Africa.
ISBN
9781474469579
9780748613045
Publication
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1999.
Copyright Notice Date
©1999.
Physical Description
1 online resource (249 pages)
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Summary
This book gives an account of how migrant women dance and sing the vibrant and expressive musical style of kiba.
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Other formats
Print version: James, Deborah Songs of the Women Migrants Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c1999
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 05, 2022
Series
International African Library
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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