Meintjes Louise Meintjes

Dust of the Zulu (eBook, PDF)

Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid

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Produktbeschreibung

In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Contextualizing ngoma within South Africa's history of violence, migrant labor, the HIV epidemic, and the world music market, Meintjes follows a community ngoma team and its professional subgroup during the twenty years after apartheid's end. She intricately ties aesthetics to politics, embodiment to the voice, and masculine anger to eloquence and virtuosity, relating the visceral experience of ngoma performances as they embody the expanse of South African history. Meintjes also shows how ngoma helps build community, cultivate responsible manhood, and provide its participants with a means to reconcile South Africa's past with its postapartheid future. Dust of the Zulu includes over one hundred photographs of ngoma performances, the majority taken by award-winning photojournalist TJ Lemon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373636
• Artikelnr.: 54675076

Autorenporträt

Louise Meintjes

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. The Politics of Participation in Ngoma Song and Dance  1
1. Turning to Be Kissed: Praise, Flirtation, and the Work of Men  28
2. The Unwavering Voice: Affect, Eloquence, and the Moral Anger of Men  62
3. Feet of the Centipede: Military Aesthetics and the Politics of
Reconciliation  94
4. To Quell the Dancer's Dust: Singing Violence during South Africa's
Transition  124
5. The Crossing: World Music and Ngoma at Home  151
6. Dancing Around Disease: Silence, Ambiguity, and Brotherhood  182
7. The Digital Homestead: Having a Voice and the Sound of Marginalization 
210
8. Brokering the Body: Culture, Heritage, and the Pleasure of
Participation  240
Closing. Ngoma's Masculinity, South Africa's Struggle  266
Notes  273
References  307
Index  329