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Chapter 7. The ‘Tinto’ image in contemporary Tswana songs

Masculinities in crisis?
  • Sibonile Edith Ellece
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Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

In this chapter I explore how men are constructed in Botswana contemporary music. I use critical discourse analysis as a conceptual framework and, at the analytical level, employ Halliday’s (1985) idea of a clause as representation and examine how characters in the songs are represented in terms of whether they are agents or goals of material processes. Six songs were selected for the study. The findings show that masculinities are multiply positioned in the songs, through a choice of clauses in which they are cast as actors in material actions that are anti-social and criminal, in negative behavioural processes and negative processes of being. While some men are proffered powerful subject positions, other men are represented as victims of other dominant masculinities, and still others are represented appreciatively as non-violent and caring. Men are therefore constructed in multiple, contradictory ways, underscoring the idea that no social meanings are ever fixed forever.

Abstract

In this chapter I explore how men are constructed in Botswana contemporary music. I use critical discourse analysis as a conceptual framework and, at the analytical level, employ Halliday’s (1985) idea of a clause as representation and examine how characters in the songs are represented in terms of whether they are agents or goals of material processes. Six songs were selected for the study. The findings show that masculinities are multiply positioned in the songs, through a choice of clauses in which they are cast as actors in material actions that are anti-social and criminal, in negative behavioural processes and negative processes of being. While some men are proffered powerful subject positions, other men are represented as victims of other dominant masculinities, and still others are represented appreciatively as non-violent and caring. Men are therefore constructed in multiple, contradictory ways, underscoring the idea that no social meanings are ever fixed forever.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements xi
  4. Gender and language in sub-Saharan Africa 1
  5. Part 1. Gender and linguistic description
  6. Chapter 1. Issues of language and gender in iweto marriage as practised by the Kamba in Kenya 29
  7. Chapter 2. Language, gender and age(ism) in Setswana 53
  8. Chapter 3. Variation with gender in the tonal speech varieties of Kera (Chadic) 79
  9. Part 2. Public settings and gendered language use
  10. Chapter 4. Language, gender and social construction in a pre-school in Gaborone 97
  11. Chapter 5. Variation in address forms for Nigerian married and unmarried women in the workplace 117
  12. Part 3. Mediated masculinities and femininities
  13. Chapter 6. A new South African man? 131
  14. Chapter 7. The ‘Tinto’ image in contemporary Tswana songs 149
  15. Chapter 8.Language and gender in popular music in Botswana 177
  16. Part 4. Gendered struggles and change
  17. Chapter 9. Sex discourses and the construction of gender identity in Sesotho 205
  18. Chapter 10. Student Pidgin 217
  19. Chapter 11. Gendered linguistic choices among isiZulu-speaking women in contemporary South Africa 233
  20. Chapter 12. Homophobic language and linguistic resistance in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 253
  21. Chapter 13. “I cannot be blamed for my own assault” 275
  22. Part 5. Epilogue
  23. African feminism? 301
  24. Gender, sexuality and language in African contexts 315
  25. Contributors 325
  26. Index 327
https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.33.11ell

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements xi
  4. Gender and language in sub-Saharan Africa 1
  5. Part 1. Gender and linguistic description
  6. Chapter 1. Issues of language and gender in iweto marriage as practised by the Kamba in Kenya 29
  7. Chapter 2. Language, gender and age(ism) in Setswana 53
  8. Chapter 3. Variation with gender in the tonal speech varieties of Kera (Chadic) 79
  9. Part 2. Public settings and gendered language use
  10. Chapter 4. Language, gender and social construction in a pre-school in Gaborone 97
  11. Chapter 5. Variation in address forms for Nigerian married and unmarried women in the workplace 117
  12. Part 3. Mediated masculinities and femininities
  13. Chapter 6. A new South African man? 131
  14. Chapter 7. The ‘Tinto’ image in contemporary Tswana songs 149
  15. Chapter 8.Language and gender in popular music in Botswana 177
  16. Part 4. Gendered struggles and change
  17. Chapter 9. Sex discourses and the construction of gender identity in Sesotho 205
  18. Chapter 10. Student Pidgin 217
  19. Chapter 11. Gendered linguistic choices among isiZulu-speaking women in contemporary South Africa 233
  20. Chapter 12. Homophobic language and linguistic resistance in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 253
  21. Chapter 13. “I cannot be blamed for my own assault” 275
  22. Part 5. Epilogue
  23. African feminism? 301
  24. Gender, sexuality and language in African contexts 315
  25. Contributors 325
  26. Index 327
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