- Title
- Language, music, self-representation and claiming the space: artists from Limpopo Province in South Africa
- Creator
- Aiseng, Kealeboga
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455271
- Identifier
- vital:75417
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-imbizo-v13-n2-a3
- Description
- It is widely accepted that popular culture is a product of the masses, for the masses. But even then, popular culture is embedded with ideolo-gies of control, manipulation, power dynamics, exclusion and inclusion, empowerment, and disempowerment. For a long time, the South Afri-can mainstream music industry has been dominated by artists and groups from Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces. These two prov-inces have produced many musical artists, film productions, television shows and many other artistic personnel. Language has always been a key factor in the South African mainstream music industry. IsiZulu, isiXhosa and instances of codeswitching have dominated the songs in the country. This has left other social groups and their languages out-side mainstream music. However, what happens when a culture of selfrepresentation emerges among a social group? What happens when a social group mobilises itself and claims the space? What about the power of languages in achieving self-representation? This study is influenced by these research questions to do qualitative, textual re-search on how a selected group of musical artists from Limpopo, South Africa is using music to achieve selfrepresentation.
- Format
- 24 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Imbizo, Aiseng, K., 2022. Language, music, self-representation and claiming the space: artists from limpopo province in South Africa. Imbizo, 13(2), pp.1-25, Imbizo volume 13 number 2 1 25 2022 2297-900X
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