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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461637603321

Autore

Jorritsma Marie R

Titolo

Sonic spaces of the Karoo [[electronic resource] ] : the sacred music of a South African coloured community / / Marie Jorritsma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-36874-9

9786613368744

1-4399-0239-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

African soundscapes

Disciplina

782.27/08905960068754

Soggetti

Church music - South Africa - Graaff-Reinet

Church music - Protestant churches

Colored people (South Africa) - South Africa - Graaff-Reinet - Music - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Graaff-Reinet (South Africa) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the challenges of inscribing coloured voices -- Karoo people and places -- Hidden transcripts : how hymns reveal history -- Senzeni na : interrelationships between the music of mission and independent African church denominations -- Singing the "Queen's English" : church choirs in Kroonvale -- Mothers of the church : women's society music and the politics of gender -- Conclusion : reflections on Karoo sonic spaces.

Sommario/riassunto

Sonic Spaces of the Karoo is a pioneering study of the sacred music of three coloured (the apartheid designation for people ""not white or native"") people's church congregations in the rural town of Graaff-Reinet, South Africa. Jorritsma's fieldwork involves an investigation of the choruses, choir music, and hymns of the Karoo region to present a history of the people's traditional, religious, and cultural identity in song. This music is examined as part of a living archive preserved by the community in the face of a legacy of slavery and colonial as well as apartheid oppressio