Senses of culture : South African culture studies

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Author:

Nuttall, Sarah.

ISBN:

9780195718393

Publication Information:

Cape Town : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Physical Description:

xiii, 559 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Contents:

imagining the past / Finding culture / The place of the human / Citizenship and modernity in Soweto / Art worlds: the performances of Samson Mudzunga / African renaissance: interviews / Black and blue in the city of gold / Watching soap opera / Prized pleasures: TV game shows / Hip-hop graffiti art / Stagings: Ashraf Jamal interviews / Zulu radio drama / Joseph Shabalala: African composer / Kwaito / Writing from prison / Autobiographical acts / Beyond van Riebeeck / Contesting beauty / Cape Town's coon carnival / Hair politics / Soccer rites / City sites / Going south: African immigrants in Johannesburg / On the road / Digital S.A. / Elephant's breath

Subject Term:

Popular culture -- South Africa.

Geographic Term:

South Africa -- Social life and customs.

Added Author:

Nuttall, Sarah.

Michael, Cheryl-Ann.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0611/2001373703-t.html
Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c5z8-aa
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0611/2001373703-d.html

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Summary

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.