Mmino wa setso: songs of town and country and the experience of migrancy by men and women from the northern Transvaal.

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dc.contributor.authorJames, Deborah
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-16T10:06:13Z
dc.date.available2018-08-16T10:06:13Z
dc.date.issued1993
dc.descriptionA thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe thesis attempts to illuminate the process through which identitities, apparently strongly "ethnic", are constructed by migrant women, and to examine how these differ from the equivalent identities constructed by men. The focus is upon northern Transvaal migrancy, and special emphasis is given to the central role played by musical performance - particularly that of the style called kiba - in constituting migrant associations. Men and women form separate dance associations: the thesis is concerned particularly with migrant women, and sets the dance groups in the broader setting of female migrancy in southern Africa. This is a phenomenon which has been neglected in the literature. The thesis criticises the adaptive emphasis of earlier Writings on migrant association, and the lack of "local knowledge" in Marxist accounts, Performers of the genre emphasise that the music is "traditional",and their lyrics legitimate the present experiences of contemporary composers by juxtaposing them with the past experiences of older ones. They view the roles they play in relation to their family members both living dependents and deceased forebears - in terms of stereotypes laid down by Sotho custom. But these independent migrant female performers of the genre, in contrast to their rurally-domiciled and. dependent counterparts, are women whose disrupted and geographically mobile upbringing has led them to seek out modernity and progress rather than an adherence to the ways of "traditionalists". They are primary breadwinners for their natal families. Custom and tradition provide an idiom in terms of which, while retaining affiliations to men's kiba sufficient to ensure their continued access to a performance space and an audience, they enunciate an identity as relatively autonomous and emancipated migrants in an urban context.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianAndrew Chakane 2018en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/25417
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subjectPedi (African people) -- Music.en_ZA
dc.subjectEthnomusicology -- South Africa.en_ZA
dc.subjectRural-urban migration -- South Africa.en_ZA
dc.subjectMigrant labor -- South Africa.en_ZA
dc.subjectWomen -- South Africa -- Lebowa.en_ZA
dc.titleMmino wa setso: songs of town and country and the experience of migrancy by men and women from the northern Transvaal.en_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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