Focus on music of South Africa
By: Carol A. Muller.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Focus on world music
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780415960717; 9780415348768; 9780203930632
Subjects: Music -- South Africa -- History and criticism
Description: This book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and practice. Providing a theoretical and empiricallly informed critique, the chapters argue for an understanding of culture as process-based and empowering.
Table of contents: title: Creating connections. South African music : The lion sleeps tonight ; Twentieth-century political history ; Twentieth-century entertainment history : live and mediated ; Graceland (1986) : world music collaboration; title: Twentieth-century musical styles : music in migration. Representing the past in South African music ; South African music : brief definitions ; Labor migration : Isicathamiya ; Labor migration : Maskanda ; Labor migration : Gumboot dance; title: Focusing in : two case studies. Cape jazz ; Shembe hymns.