Marabi nights
Subtitle: jazz, 'race' and society in early apartheid South African
By: Christopher Ballantine
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Scottsville, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781869142377
Subjects: Jazz; History and criticism; Vaudeville; History; Social conditions
Notes: Accompanied by 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) with track information on p. 232-235.

Notes on recordings (p. 201-219)

First published in 1993: Marabi nights, early South African jazz and vaudeville.

Includes bibliographical references ( p. 220-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Book: Introduction. Memory, History and Context; title: Concert and Dance. The Foundations of Black Jazz between the 1920s and the Early 1940s; title: Music and Emancipation. The Social Role of Black Jazz and Vaudeville between the 1920s and the Early 1940s; title: Music and Repression. Race, Class and Gender in Black Jazz Culture up to the Early 1940s; title: Looking to the United States. The Politics of Male Close-Harmony Song Style in the Later 1940s and the 1950s; title: Gender and Migrancy. Jazz Culture in the Later 1940s and the 1950s; title: Afterword. After Apartheid: Then and Now.; title: CD: Vaudeville. Stimela no. 1 = The first train (Griffiths Motsieloa and Company); title: Sponono naMarabi = Sponono with Marabi (Griffiths Motsieloa and Company; title: Tsaba tsaba ke no. 1 (Motsieloa's Pitch Black Follies); title: Qua qa (William and Wilfred Mseleku); title: Ndunduma = Minedumps (Bantu Glee Singers); title: Emakhaya = At home Snowy Radebe and Company); title: Khanya = Light (Griffiths Motsieloa and Company); title: eGoli = IN Johannesburg (John Mavimbela and Company); title: Aubuti Nkikho = Brother Nkikho (Griffiths Motsieloa and Ignatius Monare); title: eBhayi = In Port Elizabeth (Snowy Radebe and Company); title: Jazz. Sbhinono (Amanzimtoti Players); title: Evelina (Nkandla Guitar Players); title: Sponono (Jazz Revellers Band); title: Ntebejana (W.P. Zikali); title: iChain covers = The chain covers ; uMajaji ; Wozxa we Mzala = Come on, everybody (Merry Blackbirds); title: Marabi no. 2 jive (Hot Lips Dance Band); title: Mabuza ; Mkhize (Willie Gumede's Swing Band); title: Heat wave / Irving Berlin (Merry Blackbirds); title: Zulu piano medley, no. 1 ; Zulu piano medley, no. 2 (Thomas Mabiletsa); title: Izikhalo zika Zuluboy = The laments of Zuluboy ; Tsaba tsaba / Solomon 'Zuluboy' Cele (Zuluboy and his Jazz Maniacs).