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Sound of Africa! : making music Zulu in a South African studio / Louise Meintjes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meintjes, Louise, 1960-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Social aspects--South Africa.
- Popular music.
- Sound recording industry--South Africa.
- Sound recording industry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An ethnography of the recording of Mbaqanga music, that examines its relation to issues of identity, South African politics, and global political economy.
- Contents:
- Demo tape: about Sound of Africa!
- Cut one: mbaqanga
- Cut two: the recording studio as fetish
- Cut three: producing liveness
- Cut four: sounding figures
- Cut five: performing zuluness
- Cut six: imagining overseas
- A final mix: mediating difference.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-312), discography (p. [313]-317), and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612920639
- 9781282920637
- 1282920634
- 9780822384632
- 0822384639
- OCLC:
- 850218794
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