Focus : music of South Africa / Carol A. Muller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muller, Carol Ann.

Series:

Focus on world music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--South Africa--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

xix, 338 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Music of South Africa

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

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 I, Creating Connections, provides introductory materials for the study of South African Music. Part II, Twentieth-Century Musical Styles: Music in Migration, moves to a more focused overview of significant musical styles in twentieth-century South Africa-particularly those known through world circuits. Part III, 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.

Contents:

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

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

Focusing in : two case studies. First case study : Cape jazz ; Post-World War II Cape Town ; Sathima Bea Benjamin's Cape Town : popular culture in the post-World War II era ; Sathima Bea Benjamin as jazz musician ; Second case study : Shembe hymns ; Mission hymns and the founding of the Shembe community ; Shembe hymns

Final reflections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322) and index.

Contents and notes on CD on pages 299-309.

Principally CD includes examples recorded in te field by the author between 1994-1996. Includes some reissued material.

ISBN:

9780415960717

0415960711

9780415960694

9780203930632

0203930630

OCLC:

192134488