Kwaito'S Promise: Music And The Aesthetics Of Freedom In South Africa (Chicago Studies In Ethnomusicology)

Examines kwaito as it has developed alongside the democratization of South Africa over the past two decades. Tracking the fall of South African hope into the disenchantment that often characterizes the outlook of its youth today - who face high unemployment, extreme inequality, and widespread crime - Steingo looks to kwaito as a powerful tool that paradoxically engages South Africa's crucial social and political problems by, in fact, seeming to ignore them

• | Author: Gavin Steingo
• | Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 21, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Music
• | ISBN-10: 022636254X
• | ISBN-13: 9780226362540