Focus Music Of South Africa

Author : Carol A. Muller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135901821
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus: Music of South Africa written by Carol A. Muller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 One, Creating Connections, provides introductory materials for the study of South African Music. Part Two, Musical Migrations, moves to a more focused overview of significant musical styles in twentieth-century South Africa -- particularly those known through world circuits. Part Three, 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 downloadable resources offer vivid examples of traditional, popular, and classical South African musical styles.

Author : Carol Ann Muller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415348768
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus written by Carol Ann Muller and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For students of world music and world cultures, this authoritative work provides an in-depth survey of the full spectrum of black and white South African music. In 1986, Paul Simon's Graceland introduced millions to the sounds of South Africa. But Simon's album explores only a few of the many types of music originating within South Africa's border's a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class and gender diversity of the nation itself. The author looks at how South Africans (black and white) have used music to express a sense of place in South Africa, on the African continent, and around the world. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well as her own personal experiences, noted ethnomusicologist and South African native Carol A. Muller explores the range of sources that make music from South Africa related to, yet so distinct from, other music from the African continent and around the world. The accompanying CD offers vividexamples of traditional, popular, and classical South African musical styles.

Author : Carol Ann Muller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 041596069X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus written by Carol Ann Muller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2008 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Total Pages : 338 pages
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Author : Carol A. Muller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113590183X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Focus: Music of South Africa written by Carol A. Muller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 One, Creating Connections, provides introductory materials for the study of South African Music. Part Two, Musical Migrations, moves to a more focused overview of significant musical styles in twentieth-century South Africa -- particularly those known through world circuits. Part Three, 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.

Author : Laurie Levine
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 9781770090460
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drumcafé's Traditional Music of South Africa written by Laurie Levine and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Track list for accompanying CD: p. 266-273.

Author : Veit Erlmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195123670
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination written by Veit Erlmann and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do Western images of Africa and African representations of the West mirror each other? This study focuses on the tours of two black South African choirs in England and America in the 1890s, and the popularity of Ladysmith Black Mambazo since 1986.

Author : Chris Walton
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1919980407
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in South African Music written by Chris Walton and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past two decades, the study of sexuality and gender in music has become a decidedly mainstream activity. To be sure, music has long been obviously and intimately involved in matters pertaining to relations, both sexual and otherwise, between and amongst the sexes. Its use in courtship is the one that perhaps first comes to mind, this use being probably as old as music itself. This book contains all the papers presented at the conference by the same name.

Author : Denis Martin
Publisher : African Minds
ISBN 13 : 1920489827
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sounding the Cape written by Denis Martin and published by African Minds. This book was released on 2013 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in and around the city. Musical styles and genres produced in Cape Town have therefore been assigned an "identity" which is first and foremost social. This volume tries to question the relationship established between musical styles and genres, and social - in this case pseudo-racial - identities. In Sounding the Cape, Denis-Constant Martin recomposes and examines through the theoretical prism of creolisation the history of music in Cape Town, deploying analytical tools borrowed from the most recent studies of identity configurations. He demonstrates that musical creation in the Mother City, and in South Africa, has always been nurtured by contacts, exchanges and innovations whatever the efforts made by racist powers to separate and divide people according to their origin. Musicians interviewed at the dawn of the 21st century confirm that mixture and blending characterise all Cape Town's musics. They also emphasise the importance of a rhythmic pattern particular to Cape Town, the ghoema beat, whose origins are obviously mixed. The study of music demonstrates that the history of Cape Town, and of South Africa as a whole, undeniably fostered creole societies. Yet, twenty years after the collapse of apartheid, these societies are still divided along lines that combine economic factors and "racial" categorisations. Martin concludes that, were music given a greater importance in educational and cultural policies, it could contribute to fighting these divisions and promote the notion of a nation that, in spite of the violence of racism and apartheid, has managed to invent a unique common culture.

Author : Eric Charry
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253005825
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hip Hop Africa written by Eric Charry and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other contemporary genres, including reggae, ragga, and gospel music, and the continued vitality of drumming. Covering Senegal, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa, this volume offers unique perspectives on the presence and development of hip hop and other music in Africa and their place in global music culture.