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Lyrical Nationalism in Post-Apartheid Namibia: Kings, Christians, and Cosmopolitans in Catholic Youth Songs

Lyrical Nationalism in Post-Apartheid Namibia: Kings, Christians, and Cosmopolitans in Catholic Youth Songs

Haugh, Wendi A.

Hardcover

CatholicismGeneral Political ScienceWorld Music

ISBN10: 0739188453
ISBN13: 9780739188453
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jun 25 2014
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Namibia gained its independence from South Africa in 1990, the new government began dismantling the divisive apartheid state and building a unified nation-state. What does this new nation look like from the perspective of ordinary citizens? In Lyrical Nationalism in Post-Apartheid Namibia, Wendi Haugh provides an ethnographic portrayal of the nation as imagined by people living in the former ethnic homeland of Ovamboland, with a particular focus on the lyrics of songs composed and performed by Catholic youth. The author argues that these youth draw on conflicting ideologies--hierarchical and egalitarian, nationalist and cosmopolitan--from multiple sources to construct a multi-faceted sense of national identity. She reveals how their vision of the nation--framed as neutrally national--is deeply rooted in specific local histories and cultures.

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