In township tonight!
Subtitle: South Africa's black city music and theatre
By: David Coplan.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: First published by Ravan Press in 1985
Publisher: The 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: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : in township last night; title: City life and performing arts in nineteenth-century South Africa; title: Black Johannesburg, 1900-1920; title: Black performance culture between the world wars : the "rank and file"; title: Black performance culture between the world wars:  the "situations"; title: Sophiatown : culture and community, 1940-1960; title: Township music and musicians, 1960-1980; title: Twenty years of black theatre : the struggle for black city culture; title: The darkness and the dawn : black popular music since 1980; title: Jazz and other (con)fusions since 1990; title: Out of the townships tonight : emerging South African theatre; title: Conclusion : in township tomorrow night.