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.
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

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