WEEK 6. Mike Davis, Planet of Slums. Reading Response
Please use ONLY the provided materials to answer and your opinion.That's what the teacher doesn't want.
PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.THIS IS A DISCUSSION SO IT HAS TO BE YOUR OPINION AND NOT GENERALIZE IT BUT DETAILED NO OTHER SOURCE AND NO REFERENCE OR CITATION
1.What surprised you most about the slums from this week’s reading?
READ CHAPTER TWO
Mike Davis, Planet of Slums (Verso, 2007)
http://rebels-library(dot)org/files/planet_of_slums.pdf
2.Pick a Kwaito song and analyze the music and the mood the music creates
Kwaito Music & Terms
Music
Boom Shaka – It’s About Time
https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=jZufn3wt6wg
Trompies – Zodwa
https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=D_0Ek78o33s
Mafokate – Kaffir
https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=wF460058UkA
M’du – Mazola
https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=_D4gOyeMi88
Bongo Maffin – Makeba
https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=iPx0xuCQt78
Mzekezeke
https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=zo9GQbmn0qQ
Brickz – Tjovitjo
https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=pcM766uj0Wk
Further listening (dope Kwaito mix):
https://www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=33aCyJ3p-9g
Terms
Kwaito
Johannesburg, South Africa
Apartheid
Bantustans
Townships
Pass laws
Soweto
Pillbox houses
Backyard shacks
Squatter settlements (shantytowns)
Population: 1.3 million
Freedom fighters
1980s: rebellions
Boom Shaka – It’s About Time
Neo-traditional music
International styles
Post-apartheid freedom
House music
Chicago
Disco
Alternating bass drum and open hi-hat cymbal
Christos Katsiatos
DJ Vinny da Vinci
Ganyani Tshabalala
Cassette compilations
Cab drivers
Kwaito
Cool
Drum machine
Sampler
Synthesizer keyboard
Vocal style
Trompies – Zodwa
Mafokate – Kaffir
Layers
Vocal refrains
Repetition and variation
Kwaito vs. house music
100 BPM (beats per minute) vs. 120 BPM
Vocals
M’du – Mazola
Programmers
Soweto
Participatory culture
Commercial kwaito
Organizers
Independent record labels
Programmers
Faces
Vocal groups
Bongo Maffin
Different languages
Celebratory lyrics
Authenticity
Tsotsitaal
Converse all-stars
Spotti (hat)
Mzekeze
Aggressive vocal style
Dancehall
Rap
Brickz
Shisanyama
Utopian escape
Contradictions of freedom
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Reading Response
This week’s reading played an important role in my understanding about the true definition of a slum. I was also able to realise a number of facts about the slum situation in different countries. It is so surprising that UN’s finding show only 19.6 percent of Mexicans total population reside in slums CITATION Dav06 \l 1033 (Davis, 2006). This is contrary to what the local surveyors say about two-thirds of Mexicans living in old government buildings. It is also surprinsing that the definition of a slum as per UN meeting held in 2002 does not include any legal and physical outlook of the settlement. The definition encompasses settlements around the urban area as well as shanty buildings which is totally different from what a slum should actually be. It is also astonishing that 99.4 percent of the Ethiopian population living in urban areas are slum residents CITATION Dav06 \l 1033 (Davis, 2006). It is a surprise that not all urban poor live in slums as most of the poor actually live outside those slums. The slum population tends to be undercounted by government officials. In Bangkok where the poverty rate was officially 5 percent contrary to the surveyors finding th...
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