Full Text Available
Note: Clicking the button above will open the full text document at the original institutional repository in a new window.
In search of recognition: youth participation In 'traditional' dancing In Nyanga, Cape Town
This ethnographic study examines the experiences of young Black South Africans in seeking recognition through engagement in ‘traditional' dance. Based on six months of ethnographic research with a group of young ‘traditional' dancers in Nyanga township, Cape Town, it investigates the creative use of...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English English |
| Published: |
Department of Psychology
2026
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867613190299320320 |
|---|---|
| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Tanino, Rise |
| author2 | Fuh, Divine |
| author_browse | Fuh, Divine Tanino, Rise |
| author_facet | Fuh, Divine Tanino, Rise |
| author_sort | Tanino, Rise |
| collection | Thesis |
| description | This ethnographic study examines the experiences of young Black South Africans in seeking recognition through engagement in ‘traditional' dance. Based on six months of ethnographic research with a group of young ‘traditional' dancers in Nyanga township, Cape Town, it investigates the creative use of dance and strategies deployed by a group of young people to gain recognition as humans and as accomplished social adults. In a context in which young people must compete to fit across ever-shifting expectations of accomplishment, ‘traditional' dancing offers them a creative space to activate collective agency, negotiate visibility, being human and participate in community. Building on research about youth, dance, and recognition, I argue that youth in Nyanga employ economic, artistic, and organizational strategies in their ‘traditional' dancing to gain recognition. These strategies enable them to accumulate resources to be acknowledged in the consumerist and post- apartheid context, to quip them with outlet to express their emotions, and having stake and space in the community, allowing them to gain dignity as humans and as young people. |
| format | Thesis |
| id | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/42725 |
| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
| language | English eng |
| last_indexed | 2026-06-10T12:32:12.136Z |
| license_str | Not specified — see source repository |
| provenance_str_mv | Harvested via OAI-PMH from UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| publishDate | 2026 |
| publishDateRange | 2026 |
| publishDateSort | 2026 |
| publisher | Department of Psychology |
| publisherStr | Department of Psychology |
| record_format | dspace |
| source_str | UCTD — University of Cape Town Open Access Repository |
| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/42725 In search of recognition: youth participation In 'traditional' dancing In Nyanga, Cape Town Tanino, Rise Fuh, Divine Youth Dance Nyanga Cape Town This ethnographic study examines the experiences of young Black South Africans in seeking recognition through engagement in ‘traditional' dance. Based on six months of ethnographic research with a group of young ‘traditional' dancers in Nyanga township, Cape Town, it investigates the creative use of dance and strategies deployed by a group of young people to gain recognition as humans and as accomplished social adults. In a context in which young people must compete to fit across ever-shifting expectations of accomplishment, ‘traditional' dancing offers them a creative space to activate collective agency, negotiate visibility, being human and participate in community. Building on research about youth, dance, and recognition, I argue that youth in Nyanga employ economic, artistic, and organizational strategies in their ‘traditional' dancing to gain recognition. These strategies enable them to accumulate resources to be acknowledged in the consumerist and post- apartheid context, to quip them with outlet to express their emotions, and having stake and space in the community, allowing them to gain dignity as humans and as young people. 2026-01-28T09:43:10Z 2026-01-28T09:43:10Z 2025 2026-01-28T09:41:01Z Thesis / Dissertation Masters Masters http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42725 en eng application/pdf Department of Psychology Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Youth Dance Nyanga Cape Town Tanino, Rise In search of recognition: youth participation In 'traditional' dancing In Nyanga, Cape Town |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | In search of recognition: youth participation In 'traditional' dancing In Nyanga, Cape Town |
| title_full | In search of recognition: youth participation In 'traditional' dancing In Nyanga, Cape Town |
| title_fullStr | In search of recognition: youth participation In 'traditional' dancing In Nyanga, Cape Town |
| title_full_unstemmed | In search of recognition: youth participation In 'traditional' dancing In Nyanga, Cape Town |
| title_short | In search of recognition: youth participation In 'traditional' dancing In Nyanga, Cape Town |
| title_sort | in search of recognition youth participation in traditional dancing in nyanga cape town |
| topic | Youth Dance Nyanga Cape Town |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42725 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT taninorise insearchofrecognitionyouthparticipationintraditionaldancinginnyangacapetown |