In township tonight!
Subtitle: South Africa's black city music and theatre
By: David Coplan.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9780226115665; 9780226115672
Subjects: Blacks -- South Africa -- Music -- History and criticism.; Music -- South Africa -- History and criticism.; Black theater -- South Africa.; Blacks -- South Africa -- Intellectual life.
Notes: "First published by Longman Inc. and Ravan Press in 1985"--T.p. verso.

Includes indexes.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: in township last night; value: City life and performing arts in nineteenth-century South Africa; value: Black Johannesburg, 1900-1920; value: Black performance culture between the world wars: the rank and file; value: Black performance culture between the world wars:  the situations; value: Sophiatown: culture and community, 1940-1960; value: Township music and musicians, 1960-1980; value: Twenty years of black theatre: the struggle for black city culture; value: The darkness and the dawn: black popular music since 1980; value: Jazz and other (con)fusions since 1990; value: Out of the townships tonight: emerging South African theatre; value: Conclusion: in township tomorrow night.