Xavier Livermon

Kwaito Bodies

Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of Kwaito—a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781478005797
• ISBN-10: 1478005793
• Artikelnr.: 58740269

Autorenporträt

Xavier Livermon

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Waar Was Jy? Yeoville circa 1996  1
1. Afrodiasporic Space: Refiguring Africa in Diaspora Analytics  29
2. Jozi Nights: The Post-Apartheid City, Encounter, and Mobility  57
3. "Si-Ghetto Fabulous": Self-Fashioning, Consumption, and Pleasure in
Kwaito  92
4. The Kwaito Feminine: Lebo Mathosa as a "Dangerous Woman"  122
5. The Black Masculine in Kwaito: Mandoza and the Limits of Hypermasculine
Performance  155
6. Mafikizolo and Youth Day Parties: (Melancholic) Conviviality and the
Queering of Utopian Memory  188
Coda. Kwaito Futures, Remastered Freedoms  224
Notes  235
Glossary  239
References  243
Index  259