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You can't go to war without song : performance and community mobilization in South Africa / Omotayo Jolaosho.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jolaosho, Omotayo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Protest movements--South Africa.
- Protest movements.
- Political activists--South Africa.
- Political activists.
- Community activists--South Africa.
- Community activists.
- Protest songs--South Africa.
- Protest songs.
- Performing arts--Social aspects--South Africa.
- Performing arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "You Can't Go to War without Song explores the role of public performance in political activism in contemporary South Africa. Weaving together detailed ethnographic fieldwork and an astute theoretical framework, Omotayo Jolaosho examines the cohesive power of protest songs and dances within the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), one of many social movements that emerged in the wake of South Africa's democratic transition after 1994. Jolaosho demonstrates the ways APF members adapted anti-apartheid songs and dance to create new expressive forms that informed and commented on their struggles for access to water, electricity, housing, education, and health facilities, the costs of which had been made prohibitive by privatization. You Can't Go to War without Song offers profiles of individual activists to amplify its central point: social movements like the APF are best understood as the coming together of individuals, and it is the songs and dances of the movement that bind these individual together and create opportunity for community organization. Chapters on women and youth complicate such understandings of community, however, showing how activist live and experiences are shaped by gender and generation"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Activist portrait : Ma Patrycja
- Emergence
- Routinization
- Activist portrait : Kanelo
- Efflorescence
- Activist portrait : Lebo
- Ruptures
- Activist portrait : Willeen
- Countermobilization
- Redemption
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: Wesley.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-253-06322-1
- 0-253-06323-X
- OCLC:
- 1320819247
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