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Songs of the Women Migrants: Performance and Identity in South Africa

Songs of the Women Migrants: Performance and Identity in South Africa

Paperback

Series: International African Library

Literary CriticismGeneral MusicWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0748613048
ISBN13: 9780748613045
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Dec 24 1999
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This book gives an account of how migrant women, whose lives and experiences have heretofore been neglected in the pages of academic scholarship, dance and sing the vibrant and expressive musical style of kiba. In so doing, they build an identity as autonomous breadwinners whose aspirations and values are nonetheless rooted in 'tradition'.

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Women's Studies