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1 online resource (xlvi, 367 pages) : illustrations, music |
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text file |
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LIST OF MUSICAL EXAMPLES (ORIGINAL SOURCE IN BRACKETS); LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (ARTIST OR COPYRIGHT OWNER IN BRACKETS); PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART 1 IMPERIALISM TO MODERNISM; A JOURNEY TO THE BOOSHUANAS; TRIBAL LIFE & CUSTOMS OF XHOSA; TRAVELS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA; MUSIC IN THE CAPE; SONGS OF THE ZOOLAS; MUSIC FOR THE SETTLER JUBILEE; PREFACE TO SOLFA TUNE-BOOK; MUSIC IN THE NORTHERN CAPE AND BECHUANALAND; NTSIKANA, THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN HYMN; WINGS OF SONG; AFRICAN MUSIC; THE GORA, A STRINGED-WIND INSTRUMENT; AFRICAN MUSIC IN SOUTH AFRICA. |
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PART 2 APARTHEID AND MUSICOLOGYA NEW ERA FOR MUSIC AND MUSICIANS; THE STATE OF FOLK MUSIC IN BANTU AFRICA; COLUMBIA DANCE HALL, MARABASTAD; OCARINA MUSIC OF THE VENDA; KING KONG; AFRICA, MUSIC, AND SHOW BUSINESS; TONAL ORGANISATION IN VENDA INITIATION MUSIC; REMINISCENCES OF HEALDTOWN; PRINCESS CONSTANCE MAGOGO; EVIDENCE OF STYLISTIC CONTINUITY IN ZULU 'TOWN' MUSIC; ASPECTS OF AFRIKAANS MUSIC; WAIT A MINIM AND KING KONG; THE CORRELATION OF FOLK AND ART MUSIC AMONG AFRICAN COMPOSERS; THE FAK AND AFRIKAANS MUSIC; THE MUSIC OF NTSIKANA; HIGHBREAKS; CHRISTIAN SCHUBART AND THE CAPE. |
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OPERA HOUSES IN SOUTH AFRICACHRIS MCGREGOR; ARNOLD VAN WYK AND NAGMUSIEK; PART 3 MUSIC AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION; MY STORY; THE SONGS OF A.A. KUMALO; FROM LATVIA TO SOUTH AFRICA; XHOSA OVERTONE SINGING; THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF CHURCH MUSIC IN SOUTH AFRICA; TIGER DANCE, TERUKUTTU, TANGO, AND TCHAIKOVSKY; BUT WE SING; REUBEN T. CALUZA AND EARLY POPULAR MUSIC; MUSIC AND EMANCIPATION; HINDU DEVOTIONAL MUSIC IN DURBAN; CAPE MALAY MUSIC; THE GUITAR IN ZULU MASKANDA TRADITION; BASOTHO MBUBE; BASOTHO PERFORMANCE AESTHETICS; PART 4 A NEW SOUTH AFRICA; ISICATHAMIYA IN THE 1970S-90S; INDIGENOUS INSTRUMENTS. |
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SONGS OF THE VENDA MURUNDU SCHOOLTHE ART OF THE METAMORPHOSIS- OR THE JU'HOAN CONCEPTION OF PLURIVOCALITY; ANALYSING KEVIN VOLANS' WHITE MAN SLEEPS; KWELA; PEDI WOMEN'S KIBA PERFORMANCE; COON CARNIVAL; NAZARITE HYMNS; STEFANS GROVE; ABDULLAH IBRAHIM AND THE USES OF MEMORY; VOCAL JIVE AND POLITICAL IDENTITY DURING THE 1950S; JOHN KNOX BOKWE AND BLACK CHORALISM; THE GLOBALISATION OF SOUTH AFRICAN ART MUSIC; REFERENCES; LIST OF SOURCES; INDEX. |
| Summary |
The present Reader is a selection of texts on South African music which are chosen not only for their importance or the frequency of citations, but with the express purpose of providing the reader with a deep understanding of the music itself. Consequently, there are readings that are chosen because they have been influential, but there are also many which, though published, have not enjoyed very wide circulation. There are those which are of obvious historic interest, and others which speak ... |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Music -- South Africa -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
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South Africa. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lucia, Christine. World of South African Music : A Reader. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2005 9781904303367 |
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9781443807791 (electronic book) |
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1443807796 (electronic book) |
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9781904303367 |
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1904303366 |
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