Body Politic: The Emergence of a 'KwaitoNation' in South Africa
| Autor: | Tuulikki Pietilä |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Department of Social Research (2010-2017), Social and Cultural Anthropology |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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south africa
Cultural Studies media_common.quotation_subject education 0507 social and economic geography 5143 Social and cultural anthropology 050701 cultural studies Politics Popular music Reading (process) Habitus 0601 history and archaeology Sociology embodiment media_common youth music 060101 anthropology 05 social sciences Gender studies 06 humanities and the arts Youth culture kwaito Neoliberal ideology 6131 Theatre dance music other performing arts Embodied cognition Aesthetics Body politic politics Music |
| Zdroj: | Popular Music and Society. 36:143-161 |
| ISSN: | 1740-1712 0300-7766 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03007766.2011.634097 |
| Popis: | Kwaito has emerged as one of the most popular music genres in post-apartheid South Africa especially among the black youth. It has been heavily criticized for promoting consumerist values, neoliberal ideology, and disregard for the black struggle. This article offers an alternative reading of kwaito and argues that its political and historical awareness is expressed in embodied performance forms that build on earlier township styles. In mixing these styles with contemporary global youth culture fashions, the kwaito artists perform a habitus that imitates while remaining distinctly different from the ways and values of their largely middle-class critics. The political import of kwaito rests on the disparate sentiments of either attachment or aversion to a “black nation” that the performed imagery evokes among the audiences and observers. |
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