Parading Respectability The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa
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Parading respectability: The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa is an intimate and incisive portrait of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape of South Africa. Drawing on her own on background as well as her extended research study period during which she became a band member and was closely involved in its day-to-day affairs, the author, Dr Sylvia Bruinders, documents this centuries-old expressive practice of ushering in the joy of Christmas through music by way of a social history of the coloured communities. In doing so, she traces the slave origins of the Christmas Bands Movement, as well as how the oppressive and segregationist injustices of both colonialism and apartheid, together with the civil liberties afforded in the South African Constitution (1996) after the country became a democracy in 1994 have shaped the movement.
Title |
Parading Respectability The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa / Sylvia Bruinders. |
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Edition |
First edition. |
Publisher |
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse |
Manufacture |
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE |
Creation Date |
2019 |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Content |
Sociopolitical and historical introduction -- Ethnography of the Christmas bands movement -- The St. Joseph's Christmas Band -- From oral/aural to literate : musical transmission in the Christmas bands -- Militarism in the bands : Christmas bands competitions -- Hidden subjectivities : women's involvement in the Christmas bands. |
Series |
African humanities series |
Extent |
1 online resource (xvii, 206 pages) : illustrations. |
Language |
English |
Copyright Date |
©2019 |
National Library system number |
997010703871005171 |
MARC RECORDS
Tags
- Popular music South Africa Cape Town.
- Popular music Religious aspects Christianity.
- Bands (Music) South Africa Western Cape.
- Marching bands South Africa Western Cape History.
- Military bands
- Wind bands
- Contemporary commercial music
- Music, Popular
- nne Music, Popular (Songs, etc.)
- Pop music
- Popular songs
- Popular vocal music
- Songs, Popular
- Vocal music, Popular
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