The land is sung : Zulu performances and the politics of place / Thomas M. Pooley.

"An ethnography of Zulu performances in post-apartheid South Africa, drawing on a decade of fieldwork showing how performances of song, dance, and praise poetry are political acts in communities still defined by their relationship to traditional leadership, land, and custom"-- "Ethnography on the po...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pooley, Thomas M., 1983- (Author)
Language:English
Zulu
Language and/or Writing System:
Text in English and isiZulu.
Published: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2023]
Series:Music/culture.
Subjects:
Zulu (African people) > Music > Political aspects.
Zulu (African people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Zulu (African people) > South Africa.
Music > Political aspects > South Africa.
Dance > Political aspects > South Africa.
Laudatory poetry > Political aspects > South Africa.
Land tenure > South Africa.
Dance > Political aspects.
Land tenure.
Music > Political aspects.
Zulu (African people)
South Africa.
Physical Description:xvi, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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