Author: Coplan, David B.
Title: In the Time of Cannibals. The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants.
Description: Chicago University / Witwatersrand University Press 1994. 300pp paperback 8vo. Owners inscription ffep else a Fine copy. ISBN: 9781868142767 The workers who migrate from Lesotho to the mines and cities of neighbouring South Africa have developed a rich genre of sung oral poetry focussing upon the experiences of migrant life. This music provides an account of a migrant's life, revealing the relationship between the Basotho workers and those who live off of the workers' labour (the cannibals). Includes transcriptions of male and female performances.

Keywords: ethnomusicology social anthropology africa african south southern music lesotho


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