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Laughter and Identity : A Social and Cultural History of South African Humor,
The period between South Africa’s unification in and its departure from the British Commonwealth in was a momentous period of social change whereby South Africans of diverse racial, cultural and linguistic backgrounds strove with varying degrees of success to realize their aspirations. As the promise of an expanded liberal order turned to the brutal repression of apartheid’s first decade, this study argues that humor served as a primary means through which writers, performers and audiences processed the events of this era. Based on the contention that humor and laughter are intimately related to identity, this study shows both how these phenomena reveal Union-era South Africa’s contested social boundaries, and how a particular cohort of humorists across South Africa’s racial divide contributed to humor traditions that remain integral to South African national identity today. Starting with a comprehensiv
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House Music’s Civil War: inre the Battle Over Trax Records
IN THE EARLY DAYS of house music, nobody hustled harder than Vince Lawrence.
Vince grew up on the South Side of Chicago. As a teenager in the late s and early s, he was civiliserad and in the know: He liked Izod shirts, white K-Swiss sneakers, and straight-leg jeans; he ran hip parties, loved import records from Europe, and aspired to make music of his own. A lot of what he and his friends were into, he remembers, “came from us reading GQ and wishing we were rich.”
Around then, there was a specific vibe at Chicago’s high school parties, downtown gay clubs, and on local radio — underground but not exclusive, sophisticated but not so preening that nobody wanted to dance. It was “house” culture, named after a club called the Warehouse. At first, “house music” meant anything that the club’s DJ, Frankie Knuckles, played — disco, Italo disco, Philly soul, New Wave,
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The Miss South Africa competition has announced its top 12 finalists, and a Midrand-based model with a creative heart and a flair for all things design, Lungo Katete, is also among the models.
The year-old model is the eldest of five children from her parents. Her father is an architect who runs his own firm, while her mother is a fashionista who loves decorating and all things design, which is something Katete has inherited from her parents — the love of fashion and design.
“I come from a rather substantial family so one thing I can guarantee is that there is never a dull moment. We are a big bunch but we all value each other’s presence and support,” she explained.
Having always been a fashion enthusiast herself, Katete did not find it difficult to fall in love with modelling as it had a lot to do with fashion.
Katete continued to establish herself as one of the greatest catwalkers, accumulating a variety of accolades along the way in her modelling career.
In , she was crown