Nightsong

Video Contents
Figures and Musical Examples
Note on Orthography and Translation
Preface
Introduction: Joseph Bekhizizwe Shabalala: A Unifying Force
1: Performance Theorized
2: Isicathamiya Performance Represented
3: The History of Isicathamiya, 1891-1991
4: The Unhomely: Performers and Migrants
5: Ekhaya: The Past, the Home, and the Nation Revived
6: The Home Embodied: Dance and Dress in Isicathamiya
7: Praise and Prayer: The Rhetoric of Isicathamiya
8: Attacking with Song: The Aesthetics of Power and Competition
9: "Strengthening Native Home Life": Isicathamiya and Hegemony
10: Things Will Come Right: The Political Economy of Noncommercial Performance
11: "Two Worlds, One Heart": Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Postscript, 1994
Notes
A Select Discography of Isicathamiya
Glossary
References
Index