Kwaito's Promise

Released on by Gavin Steingo
preview-18

  • Kwaito's Promise Book Detail

  • Author : Gavin Steingo
  • Release Date : 2016-06-15
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Genre : Music
  • Pages : 328
  • ISBN 13 : 022636268X
  • File Size : 18,18 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Kwaito's Promise by Gavin Steingo PDF Summary

Book Description: 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 problems by, in fact, seeming to ignore them. Politicians and cultural critics have long criticized kwaito for failing to provide any meaningful contribution to a society that desperately needs direction. As Steingo shows, however, these criticisms are built on problematic assumptions about the political function of music. Interacting with kwaito artists and fans, he shows that youth aren’t escaping their social condition through kwaito but rather using it to expand their sensory realities and generate new possibilities. Resisting the truism that “music is always political,” Steingo elucidates a music that thrives on its radically ambiguous relationship with politics, power, and the state.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Kwaito's Promise books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Kwaito's Promise

Kwaito's Promise

File Size : 12,12 MB
Total View : 6180 Views
DOWNLOAD

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

Remapping Sound Studies

Remapping Sound Studies

File Size : 24,24 MB
Total View : 9189 Views
DOWNLOAD

The contributors to Remapping Sound Studies intervene in current trends and practices in sound studies by reorienting the field toward the global South. Attendi

Interspecies Communication

Interspecies Communication

File Size : 89,89 MB
Total View : 862 Views
DOWNLOAD

"In Interspecies Communication, ethnomusicologist Gavin Steingo examines several significant cases of attempted communication beyond the human--several cases, t

Theory for Ethnomusicology

Theory for Ethnomusicology

File Size : 54,54 MB
Total View : 8017 Views
DOWNLOAD

Theory for Ethnomusicology: Histories, Conversations, Insights, Second Edition, is a foundational work for courses in ethnomusicological theory. The book examin

Healing for the Soul

Healing for the Soul

File Size : 16,16 MB
Total View : 1688 Views
DOWNLOAD

Reimagining Gospel : An Introduction -- "A Balm In Gilead" : "Tuning Up" and the Gospel Imagination -- The Moment That Changed Everything : Gospel Music and the