Lindsay Michie

The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From an array of prominent activists including Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko to renowned performers and oral poets such as Johnny Dyani and Samuel Mqhayi, the Eastern Cape region plays a unique role in the history of South African protest politics and creativity. The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape concentrates on the Eastern Cape's contribution to the larger narrative of the connection between creativity, mass movements, and the forging of a modern African identity and focuses largely on the amaXhosa population. Lindsay Michie explores Eastern Cape performance artists, activists, organizations, and movements that used inventive and historical means to raise awareness of their plight and brought pressure to bear on the authorities and systems that caused it, all the while exhibiting the depth, originality, and inspiration of their culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498576215
• Artikelnr.: 62530108

Autorenporträt

Lindsay Michie is associate professor of history and co-chair of the Africana Studies Department at the University of Lynchburg.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: "We Create Our Own Language"
Chapter 2: "Unite Like a Ball of Scrapings": Early History to the 1850s
Chapter 3: "Turn Phalo's Land on Its Head": Late Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Centuries
Chapter 4: "You Sent Us the Light, We Sit in the Dark": 1920s - 1940s
Chapter 5: "A Spirit That Could Not Be Broken": 1950s-1960s
Chapter 6: "A Land in Calamity's Shadow": 1970s-1980s
Chapter 7: "Our Bull Has Escaped from the Pound": 1990s - the Present
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