The World Of South African Music

Author : Christine Lucia
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781443807791

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The World of South African Music by Christine Lucia Pdf

The present Reader is a selection of texts on South African music which are chosen not only for their importance or the frequency of citations, but with the express purpose of providing the reader with a deep understanding of the music itself. Consequently, there are readings that are chosen because they have been influential, but there are also many which, though published, have not enjoyed very wide circulation. There are those which are of obvious historic interest, and others which speak to contemporary issues. Among other things, the volume provides an excellent sense of the varying ideologies and approaches that determine the relationship between author and subject. The reader is indispensable to scholars and enthusiasts of South African music and it is of great interest to ethnomusicologists more generally. It is also an excellent resource for those who do not have immediate access to harder-to-find articles, and is perhaps most vital to those who are looking to find a way into the world of South African music.

Author : Max Mojapelo
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781920299286

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Beyond Memory by Max Mojapelo Pdf

South Africa possesses one of the richest popular music traditions in the world - from marabi to mbaqanga, from boeremusiek to bubblegum, from kwela to kwaito. Yet the risk that future generations of South Africans will not know their musical roots is very real. Of all the recordings made here since the 1930s, thousands have been lost for ever, for the powers-that-be never deemed them worthy of preservation. And if one peruses the books that exist on South African popular music, one still fi nds that their authors have on occasion jumped to conclusions that were not as foregone as they had assumed. Yet the fault lies not with them, rather in the fact that there has been precious little documentation in South Africa of who played what, or who recorded what, with whom, and when. This is true of all music-making in this country, though it is most striking in the musics of the black communities. Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South African Music is an invaluable publication because it offers a first-hand account of the South African music scene of the past decades from the pen of a man, Max Thamagana Mojapelo, who was situated in the very thick of things, thanks to his job as a deejay at the South African Broadcasting Corporation. This book - astonishing for the breadth of its coverage - is based on his diaries, on interviews he conducted and on numerous other sources, and we find in it not only the well-known names of recent South African music but a countless host of others whose contribution must be recorded if we and future generations are to gain an accurate picture of South African music history of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Author : Carol Ann Muller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Isicathamiya
ISBN : 9780415960694

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Focus by Carol Ann Muller Pdf

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Carol Ann Muller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 0415348765

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Focus by Carol Ann Muller Pdf

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 Simon's Graceland introduced millions to the sounds of South Africa. But Simon's album explores only a few of the many types of music originating within South Africa's border's a 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 as her own personal experiences, noted ethnomusicologist and South African native Carol A. Muller explores the range of sources that make music from South Africa related to, yet so distinct from, other music from the African continent and around the world. The accompanying CD offers vividexamples of traditional, popular, and classical South African musical styles.

Author : Veit Erlmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African influences
ISBN : 9780195123678

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Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination by Veit Erlmann Pdf

How do Western images of Africa and African representations of the West mirror each other? This study focuses on the tours of two black South African choirs in England and America in the 1890s, and the popularity of Ladysmith Black Mambazo since 1986.

Author : Ronnie Graham
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Ethiopic book of Enoch
ISBN : UCSD:31822007486426

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The World of African Music by Ronnie Graham Pdf

A companion volume to Stern's "Guide to Contemporary African Music Volume I". Since then the World Music phenomenon of the last few years has created multiple new demands for African music - through recordings, live performances and for information and analysis. This new book digs deeper into the African musical past highlighting new areas of interest and bringing the story up to date. The World of African Music is a guide which gives the flavour and excitement of music from a continent with a richly diverse musical heritage. From Francophone West Africa through the Indian Ocean Islands to South Africa, Ronnie Graham introduces the reader to the roots, rhythms and mutations of African music.

Author : Eric Charry
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253005823

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Hip Hop Africa by Eric Charry Pdf

Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other contemporary genres, including reggae, ragga, and gospel music, and the continued vitality of drumming. Covering Senegal, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa, this volume offers unique perspectives on the presence and development of hip hop and other music in Africa and their place in global music culture.

Author : Chris Walton,Stephanus Muller
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781919980409

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Gender and Sexuality in South African Music by Chris Walton,Stephanus Muller Pdf

During the past two decades, the study of sexuality and gender in music has become a decidedly mainstream activity. To be sure, music has long been obviously and intimately involved in matters pertaining to relations, both sexual and otherwise, between and amongst the sexes. Its use in courtship is the one that perhaps first comes to mind, this use being probably as old as music itself. This book contains all the papers presented at the conference by the same name.

Author : Jacques P. Malan,Human Sciences Research Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015024172291

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South African Music Encyclopedia by Jacques P. Malan,Human Sciences Research Council Pdf

Author : Carol A. Muller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135901820

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Focus: Music of South Africa by Carol A. Muller Pdf

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 South Africans have used music to express a sense of place in South Africa, on the African continent, and around the world. Part One, Creating Connections, provides introductory materials for the study of South African Music. Part Two, Musical Migrations, moves to a more focused overview of significant musical styles in twentieth-century South Africa -- particularly those known through world circuits. Part Three, Focusing In, takes the reader into the heart of two musical cultures with case studies on South African jazz and the music of the Zulu-language followers of Isaiah Shembe. The accompanying downloadable resources offer vivid examples of traditional, popular, and classical South African musical styles.

Author : Denis Martin
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781920489823

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Sounding the Cape by Denis Martin Pdf

For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in and around the city. Musical styles and genres produced in Cape Town have therefore been assigned an "identity" which is first and foremost social. This volume tries to question the relationship established between musical styles and genres, and social - in this case pseudo-racial - identities. In Sounding the Cape, Denis-Constant Martin recomposes and examines through the theoretical prism of creolisation the history of music in Cape Town, deploying analytical tools borrowed from the most recent studies of identity configurations. He demonstrates that musical creation in the Mother City, and in South Africa, has always been nurtured by contacts, exchanges and innovations whatever the efforts made by racist powers to separate and divide people according to their origin. Musicians interviewed at the dawn of the 21st century confirm that mixture and blending characterise all Cape Town's musics. They also emphasise the importance of a rhythmic pattern particular to Cape Town, the ghoema beat, whose origins are obviously mixed. The study of music demonstrates that the history of Cape Town, and of South Africa as a whole, undeniably fostered creole societies. Yet, twenty years after the collapse of apartheid, these societies are still divided along lines that combine economic factors and "racial" categorisations. Martin concludes that, were music given a greater importance in educational and cultural policies, it could contribute to fighting these divisions and promote the notion of a nation that, in spite of the violence of racism and apartheid, has managed to invent a unique common culture.

Author : J. Pierre Malan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195702867

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South African Music Encyclopedia: E-I by J. Pierre Malan Pdf

Author : Lior Phillips
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501383441

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South African Popular Music by Lior Phillips Pdf

From the storied ache of mbube harmonies of the '40s to the electronic boom of kwaito and the amapiano and house explosion of the '00s, this book explores vignettes taken from across South Africa's popular music history. There are moments in time where music can be a mighty weapon in the fight for freedom. Disguised in a danceable hook or shouted for the world to hear, artists have used songs to deliver important truths and bring listeners together in the face of a segregated reality. In the grip of the brutal apartheid era, South Africa crafted its own idiosyncratic popular musical vernacular that operated both as sociopolitical tool and realm of escape. In a country with 11 official languages, music had the power to unite South Africans in protest. Artists bloomed a new idyll from the branches of countless storied musical traditions, and in turn found themselves banned or exiled-the profound epiphany that music can exist both within the pleasure of itself and for serving a far greater purpose.

Author : Gwen Ansell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 0826417531

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Soweto Blues by Gwen Ansell Pdf

Tells the remarkable story of how jazz became a key part of South Africa's struggle in the 20th century, and provides a fascinating overview of the ongoing links between African and American styles of music. Ansell illustrates how jazz occupies a unique place in South African music.Through interviews with hundreds of musicians, she pieces together a vibrant narrative history, bringing to life the early politics of resistance, the atmosphere of illegal performance spaces, the global anti-apartheid influence of Hugh Masakela and Miriam Makeba, as well as the post-apartheid upheavals in the national broadcasting and recording industries.

Author : Louise Meintjes
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822330148

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Sound of Africa! by Louise Meintjes Pdf

DIVAn ethnography of the recording of Mbaqanga music, that examines its relation to issues of identity, South African politics, and global political economy./div