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In the Time of Cannibals : The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
In the Time of Cannibals The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants - Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Author: David B. Coplan
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 consciously artistic account of what it is to be a migrant or part of a migrant's life. It reveals th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226115733
ISBN-10: 0226115739
Publication Date: 2/7/1995
Pages: 322
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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