Muller Focus: Music of South Africa

2. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-135-90183-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Reihe: Focus on World Music Series

Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well as her own personal experiences, noted ethnomusicologist and South African native Carol A. Muller looks at how South Africans have used music to express a sense of place in South Africa, on the African continent, and around the world.

Part One, Creating Connections, provides introductory materials for the study of South African Music. Part Two, Musical Migrations, moves to a more focused overview of significant musical styles in twentieth-century South Africa -- particularly those known through world circuits. Part Three, Focusing In, takes the reader into the heart of two musical cultures with case studies on South African jazz and the music of the Zulu-language followers of Isaiah Shembe. The accompanying CD offers vivid examples of traditional, popular, and classical South African musical styles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muller, Carol A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Foreward by Michael B. Bakan

PREFACE

PART ONE: Creating Connections

Introduction

(1) South African Music: The Lion Sleeps Tonight

(2) 20th Century Political History

(3) 20th Century Media History: Live and Mediated

(4) Graceland (1986): World Music Collaboration

PART TWO: Twentieth Century Musical Styles—Music in Migration

Introduction

(5) Representing the Past in South African Music

(6) South African Music: Brief Definitions

(7) Labor Migration: Isicathamiya

(8) Labor Migration: Maskanda

(9) Labor Migration: Gumboot Dance

PART THREE: Focusing In, Two Case Studies

Introduction

First Case Study: Cape Jazz

(10) Post World War II Cape Town

(11) Sathima Bea Benjamin and Popular Culture in World War II Era

(12) Sathima Bea Benjamin: Jazz Singer

Second Case Study: Shembe Hymns

(13) Shembe

(14) AFTERWORD

Glossary for South African words

Musical Keywords

Appendices

(1) Overview of SA History

(2) SA music in relationship to study of African Music

(3) List of Significant Recordings and Websites

(4) Discussion of accompanying CD

References Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Carol Ann Muller is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Pennsylvania.