Composing Apartheid

by Lara Allen, Gary Baines, Ingrid Byerly, Christopher Cockburn, David Coplan, Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Michael Drewett, Shirli Gilbert, Christine Lucia, Carol Muller

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Description Charts the musical world of a notorious period in world history, apartheid South Africa. This book explores how music was produced through, and was productive of, key features of apartheid's social and political topography.

Publisher Description

Composing Apartheid is the first book ever to chart the musical world of a notorious period in world history, apartheid South Africa. It explores how music was produced through, and was productive of, key features of apartheid's social and political topography.The collection of essays is intentionally broad, and the contributors include historians, sociologists and anthropologists, as well as ethnomusicologists, music theorists and historical musicologists.The essays focus on a variety of musics (jazz, music in the Western art tradition, popular music) and on major composers (such as Kevin Volans) and works (Handel's Messiah). Musical institutions and previously little-researched performers (such as the African National Congress' troupe-in-exile Amandla) are explored.The writers (from South Africa, the UK and US) move well beyond their subject matter, intervening in debates on race, historiography and postcolonial epistemologies and pedagogies.

Author Biography

Grant Olwage is a senior lecturer in the School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. An aspiring DJ, he performs as Dr G.

Details

  • ISBN 1868144569
  • ISBN-13 9781868144563
  • Title Composing Apartheid
  • Author Lara Allen, Gary Baines, Ingrid Byerly, Christopher Cockburn, David Coplan, Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Michael Drewett, Shirli Gilbert, Christine Lucia, Carol Muller
  • Format Paperback
  • Year 2008
  • Pages 320
  • Publisher Wits University Press
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