Land Is Sung (eBook)

Zulu Performances and the Politics of Place

Thomas M. Pooley (Autor)

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2023
Wesleyan University Press (Verlag)
9780819500595 (ISBN)

Infos

What does it mean to belong? In The Land is Sung, musicologist Thomas M. Pooley shows how performances of song, dance, and praise poetry connect Zulu communities to their ancestral homes and genealogies. For those without land tenure in the province of KwaZulu-Nata, performances articulate a sense of place. Migrants express their allegiances through performance and spiritual relationships to land are embodied in rituals that invoke ancestral connection while advancing well-being through intergenerational communication. Engaging with justice and environmental ethics, education and indigenous knowledge systems, musical and linguistic analysis, and the ethics of recording practice, Pooley's analysis draws on genres of music and dance recorded in the midlands and borderlands of South Africa, and in Johannesburg's inner city. His detailed sound writing captures the visceral experiences of performances in everyday life. The book is richly illustrated and there is a companion website featuring both video and audio examples.

Autor

THOMAS M. POOLEY (Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) is an associate professor of musicology and chair of the department of art and music at the University of South Africa. He is the editor-in-chief of Muziki: Journal of Music Research in Africa.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments • List of Maps • List of Figures • Chapter 1 Introduction: Sounding a Way • Chapter 2 The Politics of Belonging: Land, Culture, and Representation in KwaZulu-Natal • Chapter 3 Umsindo! A Wedding at Ncunjane • Chapter 4 Umemulo: Songs of Sacrifice • Chapter 5 Phenomenology of iNgoma: isiShameni Dance and the Politics of Proximity • Chapter 6 uMaskandi iziBongo: The Politics and Poetics of Popular Praises • Chapter 7 Poverty, Inequality, and the Politics of Performance in Schools • Chapter 8 Sounds of Tongaland: Environmental Justice at Ndumo Game Reserve • Chapter 9 Unsung Melodies: Reciprocity in Sound • Epilogue • Bibliography • Discography • Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Music / Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Music / Culture
• Verlagsort: Middletown
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Zulu, music. Education, Environmental Humanities, History, Politics, South African Studies, African Studies, Dance, Sound Studies, Anthropology
• ISBN-13: 9780819500595 / 9780819500595