Composing apartheid
Subtitle: music for and against apartheid
By: edited by Grant Olwage.
Contributors: Olwage, Grant.
Publisher: Wits University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781868144563
Subjects: Music -- Political aspects -- South Africa; Music and state -- South Africa; Popular music -- South Africa -- History and criticism
Description: "Composing Apartheid is the first book ever to chart the musical world of a notorious period in world history, apartheid South Africa. It explores how music was produced through, and was productive of, key features of apartheid's social and political topography, as well as how music and musicians contested and even helped to conquer apartheid. The collection of essays is intentionally broad, and the contributors include historians, sociologists, and anthropologists, as well as ethnomusicologists, music theorists, and historical musicologists." "The essays focus on a variety of musics (jazz, music in the Western art tradition, popular music) and on major composers (such as Kevin Volans) and works (Handel's Messiah). Musical institutions and previously little-researched performers (such as the African National Congress's troupe-in-exile, Amandla) are explored, The writers move well beyond their subject matter, intervening in debates on race, historiography, and postcolonial epistemologies and pedagogies."--book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.