Focus: Music of South Africa

Name: Focus: Music of South Africa
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ISBN: 9780415960717

ISBN-10: 0415960711

ISBN-13: 9780415960717

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Carol A. Muller, Carol Ann Muller

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For students of world music and world cultures, this authoritative work provides an in-depth survey of the full spectrum of black and white South African music. In 1986, Paul Simons Graceland introduced millions to the sounds of South Africa. But Simons album explores only a few of the many types of music originating within South Africas bordersa musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class and gender diversity of the nation itself. The author looks at how South Africans (black and white) have used music to express a sense of place in South Africa, on the African continent, and around the world. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well…

Book details

List price: $64.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/9/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 358
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Carol A. Muller is associate professor of music (ethnomusicology) at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.



List of Figures


About the Author


Series Foreword



Preface



Creating Connections


Introduction



South African Music: The Lion Sleeps Tonight



Twentieth-Century Political History



Twentieth-Century Entertainment History: Live and Mediated



Graceland (1986): World Music Collaboration



Twentieth-Century Musical Styles: Music in Migration


Introduction



Representing the Past in South African Music



South African Music: Brief Definitions



Labor Migration: Isicathamiya



Labor Migration: Maskanda



Labor Migration: Gumboot Dance



Focusing In: Two Case Studies


Introduction


First Case Study: Cape Jazz



Post-World War II Cape Town



Sathima Bea Benjamin's Cape Town: Popular Culture in the Post-World War II Era



Sathima Bea Benjamin as Jazz Musician


Second Case Study: Shembe Hymns



Mission Hymns and the Founding of the Shembe Community



Shembe Hymns


Afterword



Final Reflections


Appendices



A Guide to African Music: A Music of Encounters, North, South, East, and West



Key Dates in South African History



Selected Websites and Guide to Recordings: South Africa and Its Music



Themes Common to the Study of African Music: 1980s to Present



Discussion of Musical Examples on CD


Glossary


References


Notes


Index