In this Book
- Sonic Spaces of the Karoo: The Sacred Music of a South African Coloured Community
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Temple University Press
Sonic Spaces of the Karoo is a pioneering study of the sacred music of three coloured (the apartheid designation for people "not white or native") people's church congregations in the rural town of Graaff-Reinet, South Africa. Jorritsma's fieldwork involves an investigation of the choruses, choir music, and hymns of the Karoo region to present a history of the people's traditional, religious, and cultural identity in song. This music is examined as part of a living archive preserved by the community in the face of a legacy of slavery and colonial as well as apartheid oppression.
Jorritsma's findings counteract a lingering stereotype that coloured music is inferior to European or African music and that coloured people should not or do not have a cultural identity. Sonic Spaces of the Karoo seeks to eradicate that bias and articulate a more legitimate place for these people in the contemporary landscape of South Africa.
Table of Contents
- List of Multimedia Examples
- pp. ix-xi
- List of Illustrations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xii-xviii
- Author’s Note
- p. xix
- 2. Karoo People and Places
- pp. 23-40
- References
- pp. 166-189
Additional Information
Copyright
2011