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In township tonight! : South Africa's Black city music and theatre / David Coplan.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML350 .C6 2008
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LIBRA ML350 .C6 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coplan, David B. (David Bellin)
- Series:
- Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--South Africa--Music--History and criticism.
- Black people.
- Music--South Africa--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Black theater--South Africa.
- Black theater.
- Black people--South Africa--Intellectual life.
- Intellectual life.
- South Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction : in township last night
- City life and performing arts in nineteenth-century South Africa
- Black Johannesburg, 1900-1920
- Black performance culture between the world wars : the 'rank and file'
- Black performance culture between the world wars: the 'situations'
- Sophiatown : culture and community, 1940-1960
- Township music and musicians, 1960-1980
- Twenty years of Black theatre : the struggle for Black city culture
- The darkness and the dawn : Black popular music since 1980
- Jazz and other (con)fusions since 1990
- Out of the townships tonight : emerging South African theatre
- Conclusion : in township tomorrow night.
- Notes:
- "First published by Longman, Inc. and Ravan Press in 1985"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226115665
- 9780226115672
- 0226115666
- 0226115674
- OCLC:
- 172521731
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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