Parading respectability: the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa and the constitution of subjectivity.
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https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v8i4.1867Abstract
In my research on the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape (November 2003 to March 2006), which this extract from my field notes speaks to, I have often observed how important it is for the bands to display their respectability and discipline. In this article I investigate how the bands constitute themselves as respectable members of society through disciplinary routines, uniform dress, and military gestures.References
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Caliguire, Daria 1996 "The Context: Voices from the community" in Wilmot James, Daria Caliguire, and Kerry Cullinan (eds) Now That We are Free, IDASA and FNS, Cape Town.
Cockrell, Dale 1987 "Of Gospel Hymns, Minstrel Shows, and Jubilee Singers: Towards Some Black South African Musics", American Music, 5/4:415-432.
Davids, Achmat 1985 "Music and Islam", in Andrew Tracey (ed.) Papers Presented at the Fifth Symposium on Ethnomusicology, Grahamstown: International Library of African Music, pp. 38-43.
Desai, Desmond 1985 '"Cape Malay' Music", in Andrew Tracey (ed.) Papers Presented at the Fifth Symposium on Ethnomusicology, Grahamstown: International Library of African Music, pp. 38-43.
Du Plessis, Izak D. 1935 Die Bydrae van die Kaapse Maleier tot die Afrikaanse Volkslied, Cape Town: Nationale Pers.
1972 The Cape Malays, History, Religion, Traditions, Folk Tales, The Malay Quarter, Cape Town: A.A. Balkema.
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Floyd, Samuel A. }r. 1990 Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance, New York: Greenwood Press.
Foucault, Michel 1980 Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977, edited by C. Gordon, New York: Pantheon Books.
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Jeppie, Shamil 1990 Aspects of Popular Culture and Class Expression in Inner Cape Town, circa 1939-1959, MA Thesis, University of Cape Town.
Keil, Charles and Steven Feld 2005 Music Grooves: essays and dialogues, Tucson, AZ: Fenestra
Lewis, Gavin 1987 Between the wire and the wall: A history of South African 'Coloured' politics, Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Phillip.
Mama, Amina 1995 Beyond the masks: race, gender, and subjectivity. London: Routledge.
Martin, Denis-Constant 1999 Coon Carnival: New Year in Cape Town, Past and Present, Cape Town: David Philip Publishers.
Pacini-Hernândez, Deborah 1995 Bachata: A Social History of Dominican Popular Music, Berkeley: University of California Press.
Papastergiadis, Nikos 2000 "Tracing Cultural Hybridity in Theory", in Pnina Werbner and Tariq Modood (eds) Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multi-Cultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism, London and New Jersey: Zed Publishers, pp. 257-281.
Pearce, Jennifer 1985 The origins of the temperance movement in Cape Town in the 1880 s, Honours Thesis, University of Cape Town.
Saunders, Christopher and Nicholas Southey 2001 A Dictionary of South African History, Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip Publishers.
Shell, Robert C-H. 1997 Children of Bondage: A Social History of the Slave Society at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652 - 1838, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand Press.
Turino, Thomas 1984 "The Urban-Mestizo Charango Tradition in Southern Peru: A Statement of Shifting Identity", Ethnomusicology, 28(2):253-270.
1993 Moving Away from Silence: Music of the Peruvian Altiplano and the experiment of urban migration, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2008 Music as Social Life: The Politics of Participation, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Turner, Victor 1969 The Ritual Process: structure and anti-structure, London: Routledge and K. Paul.
Wilson, Oily 1992 "The Heterogeneous Sound Ideal in African-American Music", in Josephine Wright and Samuel A. Floyd Jr. (eds) New Perspectives on Folk Music Traditions: Essays in Honor of Eileen Southern, Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, pp. 328-338.
Worden, Nigel, Elizabeth van Heyningen and Vivian Bickford-Smith 1988 Cape Town: the making of a city: an illustrated social history. Claremont, South Africa: David Philip.
Abdullah Ibrahim 1974 Mannenberg is where it's happening, The Sun
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“Parading Respectability: The Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa and the Constitution of Subjectivity”. 2010. African Music : Journal of the International Library of African Music 8 (4): 69-83. https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v8i4.1867.
