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CONTENTS
Introduction 3
Part I
“Heartless Swindle”: The African Choir and the Zulu Choir in England and America 11
1. Archaic Images, Utopian Dreams:
Forms of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness 15
2. “Style Is Just the Man Himself”:
(Auto)Biography, Self-Identity, and Fictions of Global Order 32
3. Inventing the Metropolis: Josiah Semouse’s Travel Diary
and the Dilemmas of Representation 59
4. “Spectatorial Lust”:
Spectacle and the Crisis of Imperial Knowledge 86
5. Symbols of Inclusion and Exclusion:
Nationalism, Colonial Consciousness, and the “Great Hymn” 111
6. Variations upon a Theme:
The Zulu Choir in London, 1892-93 133
7. “God’s Own Country”:
Black America, South Africa, and the Spirituals 144
8. Interlude 165
Part II
“Days of Miracle and Wonder”: Graceland and the Continuities of the Postcolonial World 167
9. Figuring Culture: The Crisis of Modernity and
Twentieth-Century Historical Consciousness 173
10. Hero on the Pop Chart:
Paul Simon and the Aesthetics of World Music 179
11. Fantasies of Home: The Antinomies of Modernity and the
Music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo 199
12. Dream Journeys: Techniques of the Self and the Biographical
Imagination of Bhekizizwe J. Shabalala 214
13. Songs of Truth and Healing:
Searching for a New South Africa 234
14. Communities of Style:
Musical Figures of Black Diasporic Identity 246
15. Dances with Power: Michael Jackson, Ladysmith Black
Mambazo, and the Ambiguities of Race 268
16. Epilogue: The Art of the Impossible 281
Notes 283
Index 308