A hip-hopera in Cape Town: The aesthetics, and politics of performing �Afrikaaps�
| dc.contributor.author | Becker, Heike | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-04T13:48:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-05T22:10:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper looks into the aesthetics and politics of the �hip-hopera� Afrikaaps. Afrikaaps was produced in 2010 by a group of musicians and spoken-word artists from Cape Town and the rural Western Cape Province of South Africa. The show premiered at an annual Afrikaans cultural festival; it then had a three week-run at a theatre, located in a predominantly white, English-speaking part of Cape Town, followed by different sets of performance in South Africa and abroad and the documentary by a Cape Town film maker. Dylan Valley�s (2011) film follows this group of local artists creating the stage production as they trace the roots of Afrikaans to Khoi-San and slaves in the Cape. The production aimed to �reclaim and liberate Afrikaans from its reputation as the language of the oppressor, taking it back for all who speak it.� (Valley 2011) The paper presents an analysis of how visual and musical aesthetics converge in the performed production of history, as creolization, and ethnically-specific �heritage�, and how the self-stylization is employed in attempts at authenticating a recently asserted linguistic and cultural �identity�. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Becker, H. (2017). A hip-hopera in Cape Town: the aesthetics, and politics of performing. �Afrikaaps�. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 29(2): 244-259 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1369-6815 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/3042 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1259997 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.privacy.showsubmitter | FALSE | |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_US |
| dc.rights | This is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2016.1259997 | |
| dc.status.ispeerreviewed | TRUE | |
| dc.subject | Afrikaaps | en_US |
| dc.subject | Performance | en_US |
| dc.subject | Heritage | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cape Town | en_US |
| dc.subject | Rainbow nation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Politics | en_US |
| dc.title | A hip-hopera in Cape Town: The aesthetics, and politics of performing �Afrikaaps� | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |