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David B. Coplan

In the Time of Cannibals

The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants

322 pages, 8 halftones  6 x 9  © 1994
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology

Cloth $81.00

ISBN: 9780226115733   Published February 1995

Paper $26.00

ISBN: 9780226115740   Published February 1995

Acknowledgments
Preface
Orthographic Note
Ch. 1: "Hyenas Do Not Sleep Together": The Interpretation of Basotho Migrants' Auriture
Ch. 2: "The Mouth of a Commoner Is Not Listened To": Power, Performance, and History
Ch. 3: "Greetings, Child of God!": Generations of Travelers and Their Songs
Ch. 4: "An Initiation Secret Is Not Told at Home": The Making of a Country Traveler
Ch. 5: "These Mine Compounds, I Have Long Worked Them": Auriture and Migrants' Labors
Ch. 6: "I'd Rather Die in the Whiteman's Land": The Traveling Women of Eloquence
Ch. 7: "My Heart Fights with My Understanding": Bar Women's Auriture and Basotho Popular Culture
Ch. 8: "Eloquence Is Not Stuck on Like a Feather": Sesotho Aural Composition and Aesthetics
Ch. 9: "Laughter Is Greater than Death": Migrants' Songs and the Meaning of Sesotho
Appendix One
Appendix Two
References
Index
Notes
Subjects



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