In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants by David B. Coplan

In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants by David B. Coplan

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ISBN: 1868142760

 Wits University Press; Edition: New Ed (December 1, 1997)

Soft Cover, 226 pages

The workers who migrate from Lesotho to the mines and cities of neighbouring South Africa have developed a rich genre of sung oral poetry focusing upon the experiences of migrant life. This music provides an account of a migrant's life, revealing the relationship between the Basotho workers and those who live off of the workers' labour (the cannibals). Includes transcriptions of male and female performances.