Video Contents -- Figures and Musical Examples -- 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 -- A Select Discography of Isicathamiya
Bibliography
Discography: pages 323-418
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-435) and index
