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- Parading Respectability: The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: NISC (Pty) Ltd
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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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- p. xi
- List of figures
- pp. xvii-xviii
- 3. The St Joseph’s Christmas Band
- pp. 57-70
- 7. Reflections and conclusions
- pp. 171-177
- Bibliography
- pp. 185-201
- About the Author
- p. 206
Additional Information
ISBN
9781920033200
Related ISBN(s)
9781920033194
MARC Record
OCLC
1082878263
Pages
226
Launched on MUSE
2019-01-21
Language
English
Open Access
No