In the Time of Cannibals (Paperback, 2nd ed.)

The workers who migrate from Lesotho to the mines and cities of neighboring South Africa have developed a rich genre of sung oral poetry--word music--that focuses on the experiences of migrant life. This music provides a culturally reflexive and consciously artistic account of what it is to be a migrant or part of a migrant's life. It reveals the relationship between these Basotho workers and the local and South African powers that be, the "cannibals" who live off of the workers' labor. David Coplan presents a moving collection of material that for the first time reveals the expressive genius of these tenacious but disenfranchised people.
Coplan discusses every aspect of the Basotho musical literature, taking into account historical conditions, political dynamics, and social forces as well as the styles, artistry, and occasions of performance. He engages the postmodern challenge to decolonize our representation of the ethnographic subject and demonstrates how performance formulates local knowledge and communicates its shared understandings.
Complete with transcriptions of full male and female performances, this book develops a theoretical and methodological framework crucial to anyone seeking to understand the relationship between orality and literacy in the context of performance. This work is an important contribution to South African studies, to ethnomusicology and anthropology, and to performance studies in general.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1995
First published:	February 1995
Authors:	David B. Coplan
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	300
Edition:	2nd ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-11574-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Folk music Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Civil rights & citizenship Books > Music > Folk music
LSN:	0-226-11574-7
Barcode:	9780226115740

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