Soweto Blues

2005-09-28 Music

Author : Gwen Ansell
Release : 2005-09-28
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 534/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Soweto Blues written by Gwen Ansell. This book was released on 2005-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the remarkable story of how jazz became a key part of South Africa's struggle in the 20th century, and provides a fascinating overview of the ongoing links between African and American styles of music. Ansell illustrates how jazz occupies a unique place in South African music.Through interviews with hundreds of musicians, she pieces together a vibrant narrative history, bringing to life the early politics of resistance, the atmosphere of illegal performance spaces, the global anti-apartheid influence of Hugh Masakela and Miriam Makeba, as well as the post-apartheid upheavals in the national broadcasting and recording industries.

Faultlines in Postcoloniality

2014-10-02 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Ernest L. Veyu
Release : 2014-10-02
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 221/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Faultlines in Postcoloniality written by Ernest L. Veyu. This book was released on 2014-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faultlines in Postcoloniality: Contemporary Readings is a collection of scholarly articles addressing fundamental postcolonial and/or postmodern concerns. The articles are nursed from the background of social, cultural, political, linguistic, ideological and literary tensions in the fabric that holds, or is supposed to hold, the human race and the world together. Variously expressed and exemplified, the articles point to a complex interplay of factors, all of which result in a certain degree of social and literary fragmentation, partly due to the absence of communication or the lack of the creation of communication avenues across the divide, be they imaginary or real. Each of the chapters in this collection bridges the gaps caused by different linguistic, literary and artistic faultlines.

The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape

2021-09-20 History

Author : Lindsay Michie
Release : 2021-09-20
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 214/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape written by Lindsay Michie. This book was released on 2021-09-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an array of prominent activists including Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko to renowned performers and oral poets such as Johnny Dyani and Samuel Mqhayi, the Eastern Cape region plays a unique role in the history of South African protest politics and creativity. The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape concentrates on the Eastern Cape's contribution to the larger narrative of the connection between creativity, mass movements, and the forging of a modern African identity and focuses largely on the amaXhosa population. Lindsay Michie explores Eastern Cape performance artists, activists, organizations, and movements that used inventive and historical means to raise awareness of their plight and brought pressure to bear on the authorities and systems that caused it, all the while exhibiting the depth, originality, and inspiration of their culture.

Black Opera

2018-05-04 Music

Author : Naomi Andre
Release : 2018-05-04
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 614/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Black Opera written by Naomi Andre. This book was released on 2018-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi André draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music's resonance with today's listeners. Interacting with creators and performers, as well as with the works themselves, André reveals how black opera unearths suppressed truths. These truths provoke complex, if uncomfortable, reconsideration of racial, gender, sexual, and other oppressive ideologies. Opera, in turn, operates as a cultural and political force that employs an immense, transformative power to represent or even liberate. Viewing opera as a fertile site for critical inquiry, political activism, and social change, Black Opera lays the foundation for innovative new approaches to applied scholarship.

Anthem

2014 History

Author : Shana L. Redmond
Release : 2014
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 323/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Anthem written by Shana L. Redmond. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extraordinary, innovative, and generative book." - George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place

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