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1	"Listen to our song listen to our demand" : South African struggle songs, poems and plays : an anthropological perspective Maree, Gert Hendrik 03 1900 (has links) Proceeding from the premise that the meaning of performances flows from contextual, textual, and nonverbal elements, this dissertation explores layers of meaning arising from performances of selected South African struggle songs, poems and plays. In particular, it focuses on performances of the Mayibuye Cultural Group which functioned as an adaptive mechanism in the changing sociopolitical landscape of the 1980s and early 1990s, and on contemporary performances. The analysis of the songs, poems and play underscores the importance of nonverbal elements for the interpretation of performances, and proposes that performances functioned as debate and as a discursive presence in the public sphere. In particular, the performances glorified a masculine conception of the struggle and of South African society which highlighted the fragile gender politics in South Africa, and functioned as a vibrant mechanism for the expression of sanctioned criticism especially for the marginalised and for those at the fringes of power. / Anthropology / M.A. (Anthropology) Interpretive anthropology Mayibuye Cultural Group Adaptive mechanism Struggle poems Gender equality Women’s rights Performance studies Tembisa cultural group Common interest association Performance association South Africa Labour movement Struggle songs Songs as discursive presence Umshini wami Workshop play 809.933552 Cultural relations in literature Struggle in literature Protest songs -- South Africa Protest literature Ethnology in literature Ethnology -- Authorship
2	"Listen to our song listen to our demand" : South African struggle songs, poems and plays : an anthropological perspective Maree, Gert Hendrik 03 1900 (has links) Proceeding from the premise that the meaning of performances flows from contextual, textual, and nonverbal elements, this dissertation explores layers of meaning arising from performances of selected South African struggle songs, poems and plays. In particular, it focuses on performances of the Mayibuye Cultural Group which functioned as an adaptive mechanism in the changing sociopolitical landscape of the 1980s and early 1990s, and on contemporary performances. The analysis of the songs, poems and play underscores the importance of nonverbal elements for the interpretation of performances, and proposes that performances functioned as debate and as a discursive presence in the public sphere. In particular, the performances glorified a masculine conception of the struggle and of South African society which highlighted the fragile gender politics in South Africa, and functioned as a vibrant mechanism for the expression of sanctioned criticism especially for the marginalised and for those at the fringes of power. / Anthropology / M.A. (Anthropology) Interpretive anthropology Mayibuye Cultural Group Adaptive mechanism Struggle poems Gender equality Women’s rights Performance studies Tembisa cultural group Common interest association Performance association South Africa Labour movement Struggle songs Songs as discursive presence Umshini wami Workshop play 809.933552 Cultural relations in literature Struggle in literature Protest songs -- South Africa Protest literature Ethnology in literature Ethnology -- Authorship

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"Listen to our song listen to our demand" : South African struggle songs, poems and plays : an anthropological perspective

"Listen to our song listen to our demand" : South African struggle songs, poems and plays : an anthropological perspective