Synopses & Reviews
Everyday life in South Africa has been dominated by the politics of racial identities, while such identities form and re-form around a range of cultural activities and practices. This book traces the important dimensions of cultural activity in late twentieth-century South Africa, offering a multidisciplinary assessment between culture and politics. It also explores the ways in which the place of culture is being rethought since South Africa's transition to democracy.
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Introduction: imagining the present Sara Nutall and Cheryl-Ann Michael
I Reflection
1. Finding culture, Robert Thornton
2. The place of the human, John Noyes
3. Citizenship and modernity in Soweto, Jane Starfield and Michael Gardiner
4. Art worlds: the performances of Samson Mudzunga, Oren Kaplan
5. African Renaissance: Interviews, Sikhumbuzo Mngadi, Tony Parr, Rhoda Kadalie, Zakes Mda, and Darryl Accone
II Sight
6. Black and blue in the city of gold, Lesley Marx
7. Watching soap opera, Miki Flockemann
8. Prized pleasures: T.V. game shows, Desiree Lewis
9. Hip-hop grafitti art, Sandra Klopper
10. Stagings, Ashraf Jamal interviews: Fred Abrahamse, Mark Fleishman, Charles Fourie, Peter Hayes, Mannie Manim, Gerard Rudolf, Jane Taylor, Chris Weare, and Reza de Wet
III Sound
11. Zulu radio drama, Liz Gunner
12. Joseph Shabalala: African composer, Christopher Ballantine
13. Kwaito, Simon Stephens
IV Word
14. Writing from Prison, David Schalkwyk
15. Autobiographical acts, Sarah Nutall and Cheryl-Ann Michael
16. Beyond van Riebeeck, Leslie Witz
V Body
17. Contesting beauty, Rita Barnard
18. Cape Town's Coon Carnival, Denis-Constant Martin
19. Hair politics, Zimitri Erasmus
20. Soccer rites, Torgeir Fjeld
VI Space
21. City sites, Steven Robins
22. Going south: African immigrants in Johannesburg, Abdoumaliq Simone
23. On the road, Justin Fox
24. Digital S.A., Martin Hall
VII Story
25. Elephant's breath, Peter Merrington
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Glossary
Index