dc.contributor.author | Israel, Paolo | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-02-11T12:17:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-02-11T12:17:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Israel, P. (2009). Utopia Live: Singing the Mozambican struggle for national liberation. Kronos, 35: 98-141 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/102 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article engages a historical reconstruction of the formation of Makonde
revolutionary singing in the process of the Mozambican liberation struggle. The
history of ʻUtopia liveʼ is here entrusted to wartime genres, marked by heteroglossia
and the use of metaphor, and referring to moments when the ʻspace of
experienceʼ and the ʻhorizon of expectationʼ of the Struggle were still filled with
uncertainty and the sense of possibility. Progressively, however, singing expressions
were reorganised around socialismʼs nodes of meaning. Ideological tropes,
elaborated by Frelimoʼs ʻcourtlyʼ composers, were appropriated in popular singing.
The relations between the ʻpeopleʼ and their leaders were made apparent
through the organization of the performance space. The main contention of the
article is that unofficiality, heteroglossia, metaphor and poetic license, although
they feature in genres that have been marked out as ʻpopularʼ in academic discourse,
are by no means intrinsically ʻpopularʼ. Much on the contrary, they
are the first victims of populist modes of political actions, that is, of a politics
grounded on a concept of ʻpeopleʼ. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | History Department, University of the Western Cape | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright author. This file may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this file is permitted without written permission of the copyright holder. | |
dc.subject | Oral traditions | en_US |
dc.subject | Makonde songs | en_US |
dc.subject | Revolutionary songs | en_US |
dc.subject | Frelimo | en_US |
dc.subject | Liberation struggle | en_US |
dc.subject | Popular culture | en_US |
dc.subject | Mozambique | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Politics and culture -- Africa | |
dc.title | Utopia Live: Singing the Mozambican struggle for national liberation | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.privacy.showsubmitter | false | |
dc.status.ispeerreviewed | true | |