Lindsay Michie

The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores Eastern Cape performance artists, activists, and organizations that used inventive and historical means to protest and resist oppressive authorities and systems while exhibiting their unique culture. Michie analyzes music and oral poetry to study the region's role in the history of South African protest politics and creativity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781498576222
• ISBN-10: 1498576222
• Artikelnr.: 68537169

Autorenporträt

Lindsay Michie is associate professor of history and co-chair of the Africana Studies Department at the University of Lynchburg.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: "We Create Our Own Language"
Chapter 2: "Unite Like a Ball of Scrapings": Early History to the 1850s
Chapter 3: "Turn Phalo's Land on Its Head": Late Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Centuries
Chapter 4: "You Sent Us the Light, We Sit in the Dark": 1920s - 1940s
Chapter 5: "A Spirit That Could Not Be Broken": 1950s-1960s
Chapter 6: "A Land in Calamity's Shadow": 1970s-1980s
Chapter 7: "Our Bull Has Escaped from the Pound": 1990s - the Present
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