Focus : music of South Africa /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2008.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Focus on world music.
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Table of Contents:
- Creating connections. 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. 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. 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
- Final reflections.