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 | In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) (1st Edition) by David Bellin Coplan Paperback, 322 Pages, Published 1995 ISBN-10: 0-226-11574-7 / 0226115747 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11574-0 / 9780226115740 The workers who migrate from Lesotho to the mines and cities of neighboring South Africa have developed a rich genre of sung oral poetry—word music—that focuses on the experiences of migrant life. This music provides a culturally reflexive and consciously artistic account of what it is to be a migra | |