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Mintirho ya vulavula : arts, national identities and democracy in South Africa
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- Creator
- edited by Innocentia J. Mhlambi and Sandile Ngidi
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Johannesburg : Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), 2021
- ©2021
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- 1 online resource (1 online resource)
- ISBNs
- 9781920690175, 1920690174, 1920690239, 9781920690236
- OCLC
- on1243552849
- Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Part I - Setting the Scene: Arts, Culture and the Shaping of a National Identity -- ONE - Reflecting on the role of arts in South Africa's democratic trajectory. An introduction -- INTRODUCTION -- FROM NATIONALIST TO DIVERSITY-AFFIRMING POLICY FORMULATION -- TAKING NOTE OF GAINS AND LOSSES: TURNS AND (RE)TURNS -- POWER RELATIONS IN CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS -- THE COLLECTION: BASIC OBJECTIVES -- REIMAGINING THE ARTS IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT -- REFERENCES -- TWO - For culture to determine history and history to determine culture. An edited address at MISTRA's 'Arts and Culture Imbizo' -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS CULTURE? -- WHAT, THEN, IS THE CULTURAL RENAISSANCE OF AFRICA AND AFRICANS, WHEREVER THEY ARE? -- REFERENCES -- THREE - Arts and culture are not weapons of the struggle -- INTRODUCTION -- CULTURE AND POLITICS -- DO NOT WEAPONISE CULTURE! -- OUR LANGUAGES MATTER -- FOUR - Acts of culture. Searching for a national South African identity in the context of arts, culture and heritage diversity -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CHAPTER'S STRUCTURE AND ARGUMENT -- RESISTANCE AND THE ROLE OF ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE IN THE STRUGGLE FOR ANOTHER SOUTH AFRICA -- SOCIAL COHESION AND NATION FORMATION: THE ROLE OF ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE POLICIES IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FIVE - Same-same but different. On intergenerational fusions and fissions in South African arts and culture -- INTRODUCTION -- THE SELF AS SUBJECT: EXPLORING THE SELF THROUGH ART, AND THE ART OF THE SELF -- WHAT IS ART, AND WHO GETS TO DEFINE IT? -- PROTEST AS ART -- THERE IS NO BLACK IN THE RAINBOW -- THE FUTURE AS IMAGINED BY US -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES
- SIX - About race. A critical appraisal of the concept of cultural work -- INTRODUCTION -- WORK AND RACIAL ERASURE -- ANTAGONISM VERSUS CONFLICT -- CULTURAL GENEALOGY OF THE CONCEPT -- CULTURAL WORK AND THE PROBLEM OF RACE -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- SEVEN - Of activist writers and cultural conferences in exile. Political, literary and personal implications -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CONFERENCES IN EXILE -- THE THREE WRITERS/ACTIVISTS AND THEIR WORK -- THE CONTEXT -- REFERENCES -- Part II - Arts in the present: Everyday developmental experiences -- EIGHT - The (r)evolution of South African urban music and the (ongoing) struggle for radical socio-economic transformation -- INTRODUCTION -- ON KWAITO'S REFUSAL OF POLITICS -- DANCING THE NATION -- WHICH NATION? -- UKU PHANDA AND THE ECONOMICS OF KWAITO -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- NINE - Between Sisters as a black feminist theatre aesthetic -- INTRODUCTION -- BLACK THEATRE TO BLACK FEMINIST AESTHETIC -- THEATRE, LABOUR AND THE DOMESTIC WORKER ROLE -- PERFORMING ROLES: MAID AND MADAM -- ROLE, COSTUMING AND RECOGNISABILITY IN BETWEEN SISTERS -- STAGING THE DOMESTICITY AND POLITICS OF THE HOME -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- TEN - Mad, mad country. Lewis Nkosi's subversive texts and the mind of South Africa -- INTRODUCTION -- TRAUMATISED BODIES AND SPACES -- CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES -- LEADING AFRICAN CRITIC -- PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHIATRY -- THE MUSICALITY OF PLACE -- THE JOKE OF THE WHITE MAN'S JUSTICE -- KEY QUESTIONS ON AFRICAN LITERATURE -- MATING BIRDS -- UNDERGROUND PEOPLE -- REFERENCES -- ELEVEN - South Africa's trade publishing sector. Has there been transformation? -- INTRODUCTION: PAST INEQUALITIES CONTINUE IN THE PRESENT -- THE CONTINUED NEED FOR TRANSFORMATION IN THE PUBLISHING SECTOR -- METHODOLOGY -- POLICY FRAMEWORK -- THE SOCIO-POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE PUBLISHING SECTOR
- DISCUSSION AND EMERGING QUESTIONS -- ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN PUBLISHING SECTOR -- POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Part III - Arts in the future: Towards social cohesion and collective imagination -- TWELVE - Case studies of 'glocalised' South African cultural productions from below. Nation formation and social cohesion -- INTRODUCTION -- WHITE PAPERS ON ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE, EXTENDED ELABORATIONS, SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES -- PRODUCING ARTS AND CULTURE FOR THE (INTER)NATIONAL MARKET IN THE STYLE OF THE TRADITIONAL -- IMIGWALO YAMANDEBELE: ESTHER MAHLANGU'S ART AND THE GLOBAL WORLD CULTURE -- BUILDING CULTURE THROUGH A MASKANDI CULTURAL MOVEMENT -- OPERA: BLACK VOICES ON INTERNATIONAL STAGES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THIRTEEN - Renewed attractiveness. Migrant imagination in shaping 'liveability' and collectivity through South African arts -- INTRODUCTION -- A COUNTRY IMAGINED -- CULTURAL ATTRACTIVENESS AS A DESTINATION QUALITY -- TIME FOR AFRICA, THE DENSITY OF EXPERIENCE AND THE VIBRANCY OF CONTRADICTIONS -- MIGRANT AESTHETICS AND RENEWAL OF ATTRACTIVENESS -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- FOURTEEN - Bridging the gap. Researching the art of Africa -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS A MUSEUM? -- COMPARATIVE EXHIBITIONS DONE ELSEWHERE IN THE PAST -- CORPORATE COLLECTIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FIFTEEN - Arts and culture policy moving between past and present towards the future -- INTRODUCTION: THE NECESSITY OF THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE -- THE 1996 INAUGURAL WHITE PAPER ON ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE -- AN ANALYSIS OF THE 2017 REVISION'S CONTENTS AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS -- COVID-19 AND OBSERVATIONS THAT SHAPE ARTS AND CULTURE POLICY MOVING INTO THE FUTURE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CONCLUSION - Can arts and culture transform society? Social cohesion and nation-building
- INTRODUCTION: ARTS, CULTURE AND TRANSFORMATION -- CULTURAL CAPITAL: A BASE OR BANE FOR TRANSFORMATION? -- ARTS, CULTURE, DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY: THE VALUE PROPOSITION -- NATIONAL COHESION AND NATION-BUILDING THROUGH ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE -- ART AND CULTURE AS A WEAPON OF THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION -- IPHI'NDLELA? PUTTING THE ARTS AT THE FRONT AND CENTRE OF DEVELOPMENTAL EFFORTS -- REFERENCES -- Index -- Back cover