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OverviewYou 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Omotayo JolaoshoPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Weight: 0.458kg ISBN: 9780253063212ISBN 10: 0253063213 Pages: 310 Publication Date: 26 July 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Activist Portrait: Ma Patrycja 1. Emergence 2. Routinization Activist Portrait: Kanelo 3. Efflorescence Activist Portrait: Lebo 4. Ruptures Activist Portrait: Willeen 5. Countermobilization 6. Redemption Conclusion Epilogue: Wesley Bibliography IndexReviews"""You Can't Go to War without Song is an exceptional ethnography that is carefully and thoughtfully researched and engagingly written with a keen sensitivity to the relational and power dynamics of post-apartheid mobilization movements in South Africa.""—Yolanda Covington-Ward, University of Pittsburgh" You Can't Go to War without Song is an exceptional ethnography that is carefully and thoughtfully researched and engagingly written with a keen sensitivity to the relational and power dynamics of post-apartheid mobilization movements in South Africa.--Yolanda Covington-Ward, University of Pittsburgh Author InformationOmotayo Jolaosho (they, them, their[s]) was a cultural anthropologist with a background in performance and integrated arts. An Assistant Professor of Africana Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida, their publications included the transnational anthology African Women Writing Resistance: Contemporary Voices. Jolaosho died in 2021. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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