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In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants Book

In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants
In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants, 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 conscious, In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants has a rating of 3.5 stars
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In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants, 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 conscious, In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants
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  • In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants
  • Written by author David B. Coplan
  • Published by University of Chicago Press, February 1995
  • 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 conscious
  • 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
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Acknowledgments
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Orthographic Note
Ch. 1"Hyenas Do Not Sleep Together": The Interpretation of Basotho Migrants' Auriture1
Ch. 2"The Mouth of a Commoner Is Not Listened To": Power, Performance, and History30
Ch. 3"Greetings, Child of God!": Generations of Travelers and Their Songs65
Ch. 4"An Initiation Secret Is Not Told at Home": The Making of a Country Traveler90
Ch. 5"These Mine Compounds, I Have Long Worked Them": Auriture and Migrants' Labors118
Ch. 6"I'd Rather Die in the Whiteman's Land": The Traveling Women of Eloquence150
Ch. 7"My Heart Fights with My Understanding": Bar Women's Auriture and Basotho Popular Culture178
Ch. 8"Eloquence Is Not Stuck on Like a Feather": Sesotho Aural Composition and Aesthetics201
Ch. 9"Laughter Is Greater than Death": Migrants' Songs and the Meaning of Sesotho242
Appendix One263
Appendix Two270
References281
Index293


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