358 Pages
61 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
358 Pages
61 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
360 Pages
61 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well as her own personal experiences, noted ethnomusicologist and South African native Carol A. Muller looks at how... Read more
List of Figures, About the Author, Series Foreword by Michael B. Bakan, Preface, PART I: 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 II: Twentieth- Century Musical Styles: Music in Migration, Introduction, 5. Representing the Past in South African Music, 6. South African Music: Brief Definitions, 7. Labor Migration: Isicathamiya, 8. Labor Migration: Maskanda, 9. Labor Migration: Gumboot Dance, PART III: Focusing In: Two Case Studies, Introduction, First Case Study: Cape Jazz, 10. Post-World War II Cape Town, 11. Sathima Bea Benjamin’s Cape Town: Popular Culture in the Post- World War II Era, 12. Sathima Bea Benjamin as Jazz Musician, 13. Mission Hymns and the Founding of the Shembe Community, 14. Shembe Hymns, AFTERWORD, 15. 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
Biography
Carol Ann Muller is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Pennsylvania.
"Rich in detail and highly focused, this is the most thorough resource on South African music available to date." --CHOICE
Easily accessible and thoroughly researched, this publication gives a fine introduction to South African music.
---Santie de Jongh, Documentation Centre for Music (DOMUS), University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
