{"product_id":"9781439902394","title":"Sonic Spaces of the Karoo: The Sacred Music of a South African Coloured Community","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSonic Spaces of the Karoo\u003c\/i\u003e is a pioneering study of the sacred music of three coloured (the apartheid designation for people \"not white or native\") people's church congregations in the rural town of Graaff-Reinet, South Africa. Jorritsma's fieldwork involves an investigation of the choruses, choir music, and hymns of the Karoo region to present a history of the people's traditional, religious, and cultural identity in song. This music is examined as part of a living archive preserved by the community in the face of a legacy of slavery and colonial as well as apartheid oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJorritsma's findings counteract a lingering stereotype that coloured music is inferior to European or African music and that coloured people should not or do not have a cultural identity. \u003ci\u003eSonic Spaces of the Karoo\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to eradicate that bias and articulate a more legitimate place for these people in the contemporary landscape of South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128078418160,"sku":"9781439902394","price":66.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439902394_p0.jpg?v=1763757192","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439902394","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}