Fleming Opposing Apartheid on Stage

King Kong the Musical
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78744-656-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 89, 428 Seiten

Reihe: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

A captivating account of an interracial jazz opera that took apartheid South Africa by storm and marked a turning point in the nation's cultural history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fleming, Tyler

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
"Marvelous Muscles": A History of Ezekiel Dlamini, the Real "King Kong"
Creating a "Back of the Moon": The Union of Southern African Artists and Interracial Collaboration Behind the "All-African" Musical
"Quickly in Love": Popular Receptions of 1959 King Kong and Entertaining the Possibilities of a Different South Africa(s)
"Kwela Kong": The Trials and Tribulations of a South African Musical Abroad in 1961
"Sad Times, Bad Times": Issues of Exile, the King Kong Cast, and South African Jazz in Britain, 1961-1980
"The Boy's [and Girl's] Doin' It":Moving to America and Re-Discovering Africa, 1960-1989
"Death Song": The 1979 Remake of King Kong And the Power of Cultural Memories Under Apartheid
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Fleming Tyler:
TYLER FLEMING is Associate Professor in the Departments of History & Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY. He received his PhD in African History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009.