Sounds in South Africa
Subtitle: School of Human and Social Sciences annual lectures, University of Venda, 2017
By: David B. Coplan
Series: CASAS Book Series -- No. 127; CASAS book series -- no. 127.
Publisher: Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS)
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9781920294229
Subjects: Music; History; Popular music; Political aspects; Folk music; Black Musicians; National songs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Life in the field : anthropologist as refugee; title: 2. God rock Africa : thought on politics in popular black performance in South Africa; title: 3. Sounds of the "third way" : identity and the African renaissance in contemporary South Africa popular traditional music; title: 4. Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika and the liberation of the spirit of South Africa