[Linganth] Tayo Jolaoshe's book - You Can't Go to War without Song

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, we honor Tayo Jolaoshe's contributions posthumously.
Dorothy Hodgson, their dissertation advisor, discusses their work with
Deborah Durham.

Please check it out:

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https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: *You Can't Go to War without Song *explores the role of public
performance in political activism in contemporary South Africa. Weaving
together detailed ethnographic fieldwork and an astute theoretical
framework, Omotayo Jolaosho examines the cohesive power of protest songs
and dances within the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF), one of many social
movements that emerged in the wake of South Africa's democratic transition
after 1994.

Jolaosho demonstrates the ways APF members adapted anti-apartheid songs and
dance to create new expressive forms that informed and commented on their
struggles for access to water, electricity, housing, education, and health
facilities, the costs of which had been made prohibitive by privatization.

*You Can't Go to War without Song* offers profiles of individual activists
to amplify its central point: social movements like the APF are best
understood as the coming together of individuals, and it is the songs and
dances of the movement that bind these individual together and create
opportunity for community organization. Chapters on women and youth
complicate such understandings of community, however, showing how activist
live and experiences are shaped by gender and generation.
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