- Title
- Technauriture: Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Performance
- Creator
- Kaschula, Russell H
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175223
- Identifier
- vital:42554
- Identifier
- ISBN 9783643901309
- Description
- This paper seeks to assess the contribution of technology to the preservation and popularizing of oral performance in Southern Africa. An example will be provided which looks at the oral poetry, izibongo, produced by Xhosa oral poet Bongani Sitole (both in book and technological form). It will trace this poetry from the moment it was orally produced, through to the technologising and publication of this poetry in book form and on a website. A number of websites will also be analysed. The initial part of the paper provides a contextual analysis of selected poetry. This genre will also be compared (in terms of technological influence) with more contemporary Southern African performers such as the story-teller, Gcina Mhlophe as well as Lebo Mashile and Botsotso, spoken word artists and the oral poet Zolani Mkiva. The latter part of the article concentrates on issues related to technology and its relationship to the oral and written word.
- Format
- 20 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- LIT Verlag Münster
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Kaschula, R., 2012. Technauriture: Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Performance”. Multimedia Research and Documentation of Oral Genres in Africa–The Step Forward, pp.1-20. LIT Verlag Münster
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