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Coplan, David Bellin: |
CONTENTS
Preface viii
Maps xvii
Chapter 1
Introduction 1
Chapter 2
The Foundations of Urban African Social Life and Performing Arts in Nineteenth Century South Africa 44
Black Performers in Early Cape Town 44
Proletarian Performers in Kimberley 49
Migrant Performance Culture in Kimberley 60
Missions and Performing Arts: the Christian Cape Nguni 76
The African Elite: Music and Society in Kimberley 101
African Performance in Johannesburg 112
Chapter 3
Black Johannesburg: Social Conditions and Cultural Development, 1900-1920 129
The Background of African Settlement 129
Crime and Urban Social Organization 141
Migrants and Townsmen 146
Church and School Culture 155
Separatist Christianity and Working-Class Culture 182
Musical Modernization: The Brass Bands 185
Chapter 4
Working-Class African Society and Performance Culture Between the World Wars 197
Shebeen Soclety 197
Marabi Culture 205
Sotho Urbanization: the Famo Dance 213
Music and Social Organization: Tswana Stokfel 219
Reference Group Behavior: Zulu Ndunduma 233
Marabi Musical Structure 235
Performance Culture and Class Dynamics 245
Chapter 5
Elite Performance Culture and Class Dynamics Between the World Wars 254
Social Background 254
Church and School Culture 257
Black America in Johannesburg 270
Entertainment and Class Dynamics 284
Africans and the Mass Cultural Media 300
Chapter 6
Sophiatown – Culture and Community, 1940-1960 312
The Background of Urban African Freehold 312
School and Professional Performance 315
Street and Professional Performance 330
African Music and Media Dominance 347
Black Performance, White Management 362
Musicians and Community 374
Chapter 7
Conclusion: Causality and Process in the Urbanization of Performance Culture 387
Glossary 429
References Cited 444