The spirit of resistance in music and spoken word of South Africa's Eastern Cape /

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 Sout...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Eades, Lindsay Michie, 1962- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
Subjects:	Music > Social aspects > South Africa > Eastern Cape > History. Oral tradition > Social aspects > South Africa > Eastern Cape > History. Government, Resistance to > South Africa > Eastern Cape > History. Xhosa (African people) > South Africa > Eastern Cape > Social conditions. Eastern Cape (South Africa) > Social conditions > History. Eastern Cape (South Africa) > Race relations > History.

Table of Contents:

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