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Zulu Radio in South Africa is one of the most far-reaching and influential media in the region, currently attracting around 6.67 million listeners daily. While the public and political role of radio is well-established, what is less understood is how it has shaped culture by allowing listeners to negotiate modern identities and fast-changing lifestyles. Liz Gunner explores how understandings of the self, family, and social roles were shaped through this medium of voice and mediated sound. Radio was the unseen literature of the auditory, the drama of the airwaves, and thus became a conduit for many talents squeezed aside by apartheid repression. Besides Winnie Mahlangu and K. E. Masinga, among other talents, the exiles Lewis Nkosi and Bloke Modisane made a network of identities and conversations which stretched from the heart of Harlem to the American South, drawing together the threads of activism and creativity from both Black America and the African continent at a critical moment of late empire.

Ethnic radio broadcasting --- Radio broadcasting, Zulu --- Radio broadcasting --- #SBIB:39A8 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:309H1513 --- Radio --- Radio industry and trade --- Broadcasting --- Mass media --- Zulu radio broadcasting --- Minority radio broadcasting --- Ethnic broadcasting --- Community radio --- Political aspects --- Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Geschiedenis en/of organisatie van de radio en/of televisie: algemeen en per land (met inbegrip van de rol van de omroep in de ontwikkelingsproblematiek) --- Minority broadcasting --- Ethnic mass media

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African oral literature, like other forms of popular culture, is not merely folksy, domestic entertainment but a domain in which individuals in a variety of social roles are free to comment on power relations in society. It can also be a significant agent of change capable of directing, provoking, preventing, overturning and recasting social reality. This collection examines the way in which oral texts both reflect and affect contemporary social and political life in Africa. It addresses questions of power, gender, the dynamics of language use, the representation of social structures and the relation between culture and the state. The contributors are linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnomusicologists and historians, who present fresh material and ideas to paint a lively picture of current real-life situations. The book is an important contribution to the study of African culture and literature, and to the anthropological study of oral literature in particular.

Oral tradition --- Folklore --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social structure --- Marginality, Social --- Tradition orale --- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) --- Structure sociale --- Marginalité sociale --- Africa --- Afrique --- Politics and government. --- Social life and customs. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Narrative poetry, African. --- Marginalité sociale --- Narrative poetry, African --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Sociology --- Social institutions --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- African narrative poetry --- African poetry --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- People with social disabilities --- Social Sciences

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In Musho! Zulu Popular Praises Elizabeth Gunner, an authority on Zulu literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and Mafika Gwala, a South African teacher and poet, have translated, transcribed, and annotated a wide variety of Zulu izibongo poetry. In so doing, they have revealed the incredible breadth of this traditional genre, which is usually equated with nineteenth-century epic traditions that celebrate the deeds of Shaka and the successor kings of his Zulu monarchy.

Laudatory poetry, Zulu --- Laudatory poetry, Zulu. --- Zulu laudatory poetry --- Zulu poetry

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Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Australia --- South Africa --- Decolonization in literature --- Colonies in literature --- South African literature --- Australian literature --- Décolonisation dans la littérature --- Colonies dans la littérature --- Littérature sud-africaine --- Littérature australienne --- Congresses. --- History and criticism --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Histoire et critique --- Décolonisation dans la littérature --- Colonies dans la littérature --- Littérature sud-africaine --- Littérature australienne --- Congrès --- Head, Bessie --- Comparative studies --- Post-colonial landscape --- Settler societies --- Travel writing