Kwaito Bodies: Pleasure, Joy & Politics of Social Dance in South Africa
AAASRC Black History Month Event: Xavier Livermon, Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Interim Provost of Oakes College at UC Santa Cruz, will be giving a talk titled “Kwaito Bodies: Pleasure Joy and the Politics of Social Dance in South Africa”.
In Kwaito Bodies Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in South Africa through the performance, representation, and consumption of kwaito, a style of electronic dance music that emerged following the end of apartheid. Drawing on fieldwork in Johannesburg's nightclubs and analyses of musical performances and recordings, Livermon applies a black queer and black feminist studies framework to kwaito.
Please contact AAASRC at (858) 534-9063 or Zoe Catz Johnson at [email protected] as needed for more information. Room 101