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You Can't Go to War without Song - Performance and Community Mobilization in South Africa (Paperback)
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You Can't Go to War without Song - Performance and Community Mobilization in South Africa (Paperback)
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You Can't Go to War without Song explores the role of public
performance in political activism in contemporary South Africa.
Weaving together detailed ethnographic fieldwork and an astute
theoretical framework, Omotayo Jolaosho examines the cohesive power
of protest songs and dances within the Anti-Privatisation Forum
(APF), one of many social movements that emerged in the wake of
South Africa's democratic transition after 1994. Jolaosho
demonstrates the ways APF members adapted anti-apartheid songs and
dance to create new expressive forms that informed and commented on
their struggles for access to water, electricity, housing,
education, and health facilities, the costs of which had been made
prohibitive by privatization. You Can't Go to War without Song
offers profiles of individual activists to amplify its central
point: social movements like the APF are best understood as the
coming together of individuals, and it is the songs and dances of
the movement that bind these individual together and create
opportunity for community organization. Chapters on women and youth
complicate such understandings of community, however, showing how
activist live and experiences are shaped by gender and generation.
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