Lyrical Nationalism in Post Apartheid Namibia

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Lyrical Nationalism in Post Apartheid Namibia

Author	: Wendi A. Haugh
File Size	: 51,8 Mb
Publisher	: Lexington Books
Language	: English
Release Date	: 25 June 2014
ISBN	: 9780739188460
Pages	: 312 pages

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Lyrical Nationalism in Post Apartheid Namibia by Wendi A. Haugh Book PDF Summary

This book explores how young people living in a former ethnic homeland in post-apartheid Namibia imagine the nation through songs they compose and perform. The author argues that these Oshiwambo-speaking youth draw on conflicting ideologies—hierarchical and egalitarian, nationalist and cosmopolitan—to construct a complex sense of national identity.

Lyrical Nationalism in Post Apartheid Namibia by Wendi A. Haugh

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