“The innovation of Rastafari dancehall music in isiXhosa language in Cape Town”
1040 im Rahmen des Regional-Seminar “Südliches Afrika”, Leitung Dr. Cordula Weißköppel . . The Rastafari language, or ‘Dread talk’, has been essential in the spread of reggae music across ethnic and national [...] national borders as a marker of transgressive and global blackness. In this talk I examine why and how Rastafari vocalists in Cape Town have started to incorporate vernacular isiXhosa language into their music [...] and what social negotiations this innovation has entailed in their music careers. Both for the Rastafari movement and Xhosa speakers in general, oral culture is linked to gendered and generational power