Routledge

About the Book

Table of Contents

  • Series Foreword by Michael B. Bakan
  • Preface

PART 1: Creating Connections

  • Introduction
  1. South African Music: The Lion Sleeps Tonight
  2. Twentieth-Century Political History
  3. Twentieth-Century Entertainment History: Live and Mediated
  4. Graceland (1986): World Music Collaboration

PART 2: Twentieth-Century Musical Styles: Music in Migration

  • Introduction
  1. Representing the Past in South African Music
  2. South African Music: Brief Definitions
  3. Labor Migration: Isicathamiya
  4. Labor Migration: Maskanda
  5. Labor Migration: Gumboot Dance

PART 3: Focusing In — Two Case Studies

  • Introduction
  • First Case Study: Cape Jazz
  1. Post-World War II Cape Town
  2. Sathima Bea Benjamin's Cape Town: Popular Culture in the Post-World War II Era
  3. Sathima Bea Benjamin as Jazz Musician
  • Second Case Study: Shembe Hymns
  1. Mission Hymns and the Founding of the Shembe Community
  2. Shembe Hymns

AFTERWORD

  1. Final Reflections

APPENDICES

  1. A Guide to African Music: A Music of Encounters, North, South, East, and West
  2. Key Dates in South African History
  3. Selected Websites and Guide to Recordings: South Africa and Its Music
  4. Themes Common to the Study of African Music: 1980s to Present
  5. Discussion of Musical Examples on CD
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Notes
  • Index