Musical echoes
Subtitle: South African women thinking in jazz
By: Carol Ann Muller & Sathima Bea Benjamin
Contributors: Benjamin, Sathima Bea
Series: Refiguring American music; Refiguring American music
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780822348917; 9780822349143
Subjects: Jazz; Jazz singers; Biography; Women jazz musicians
Description: The life story of the outstanding jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin sheds light on South African jazz history, women in jazz, and American music as a transnational art form.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-336) and index.
Table of contents: title: A tribute by Abdullah Ibrahim: "Sathima"; title: Sathima : my life's journey as a jazz singer; title: Beginnings; title: A home within; title: Call: recollecting a musical past; title: Response: entanglement in race and music; title: Cape jazz; title: Call: popular music, dance bands, and jazz; title: Response: imagining musical lineage through Duke and Billie; title: Jazz migrancy; title: Call: musicians abroad; title: Response: a new African diaspora; title: A new york embrace; title: Call: coming to the city; title: Response: women thinking in jazz, or the poetics of a musical self; title: Returning home?; title: Call: Cape Town love/an archeology of popular song; title: Response: jazz history as living history; title: Musical echoes; title: Call: Sathima's musical echo; title: Response: reflections on echo; title: Outcomes : jazz in the world.