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21%OFFGavin Steingo - Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) - 9780226362540 - V9780226362540
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Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

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Description for Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) Paperback. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country's urban black youth developed kwaito--a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generation. In this book, Gavin Steingo examines kwaito as it has developed alongside the democratization of South Africa over the past two decades. Tracking the fall of South African hope into the disenchantment that often characterizes the outlook of its youth today--who face high unemployment, extreme inequality, and widespread crime--Steingo looks to kwaito as a powerful tool that paradoxically engages South Africa's crucial social and political ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226362540
SKU
V9780226362540
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About Gavin Steingo
Gavin Steingo is assistant professor of music at the University of Pittsburgh.

Reviews for Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
'The word kwaito, ' writes Steingo in the Epilogue, 'can be employed only timidly, awkwardly, and at risk of error' (215). As its bold yellow typeface on the book's cover confirms, there is nothing timid or awkward about this monograph's discursive grappling with kwaito, or in its ethnographic and critical engagement with aesthetics and politics. The text is ethnographically ... Read more

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