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Kwaito Bodies
- Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Engelsk Paperback
Kwaito Bodies
- Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Engelsk Paperback

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In Kwaito Bodies Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of kwaito, a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid. Drawing on fieldwork in Johannesburg's nightclubs and analyses of musical performances and recordings, Livermon applies a black queer and black feminist studies framework to kwaito. He shows how kwaito culture operates as an alternative politics that challenges the dominant constructions of gender and sexuality. Artists such as Lebo Mathosa and Mandoza rescripted notions of acceptable femininity and masculinity, while groups like Boom Shaka enunciated an Afrodiasporic politics. In these ways, kwaito culture recontextualizes practices and notions of freedom within the social constraints that the legacies of colonialism, apartheid, and economic inequality place on young South Africans. At the same time, kwaito speaks to the ways in which these legacies reverberate between cosmopolitan Johannesburg and the diaspora. In foregrounding this dynamic, Livermon demonstrates that kwaito culture operates as a site for understanding the triumphs, challenges, and politics of post-apartheid South Africa.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478006633
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478006633
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
24 apr 2020
Længde:
33mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
24 apr 2020
Forfatter(e):
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