Kalela dance

The Kalela dance became popular after 1950 in the largest Central African mining area, the Copperbelt in Zambia and what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo , and was examined by J. Clyde Mitchell as an example.

The Copperbelt, as a metropolitan area, an immigration area for over 90 language groups, who mainly worked in copper mining and smelting, had originally brought together hostile tribal groups and also fueled new interethnic tensions. The Kalela Dance, at heart, a round dance of men with some solid costumed characters (for example, "the Doctor") with conventional rhythmical and musical instruments existed to the delight of spectators from long-known but most currently added sealed satires individual groups about each other. Like other joking relationships , it had a double function in the sense of Max Gluckman's The License in Ritual : It expressly expressed social conflicts , but defused them in everyday life.

See also

• Group dance
• Sociology of conflict
• shanty
• Pastor sien Kauh

literature

• Max Gluckman: Custom and conflict in Africa. Basil Blackwell, London 1955
• J. Clyde Mitchell: The Kalela dance: Aspects of social relationships among urban Africans in Northern Rhodesia . Manchester University Press, Manchester 1956