Print version: James, Deborah Songs of the Women Migrants Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,c1999 ISBN 9780748613045
Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of Maps, Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Home Boys, Home Dances: Migrants Create Past and Place -- 2 ’Those of My Home’: MIgrant Women on the Reef -- 3 ’We are Visitors’: Men’s and Women’s Kiba -- 4 Women as Brothers, Women as Sons: Domestic Predicaments Unravelled -- 5 ’I Dress in This Fashion’: Rural Singers and the Sotho Life-Course -- 6 Dislocations and Continuitieis: Disrupted Youth and Adolescence -- 7 Family Gifts, Family Spirits -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Lists of Discussions and Interpreters -- Appendix 2: List of Kiba Performances -- Appendix 3: Select Discography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book gives an account of how migrant women dance and sing the vibrant and expressive musical style of kiba..