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Lucia, Christine (ed.):
A World of South African Music. A Reader.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005. 368 p.
ISBN 19044303366

CONTENTS

Preface and Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction xxi

Part 1: Imperialism to modernism 1

John Barrow
A Journey to the Booshuanas 1
Ludwig Alberti
Tribal Life & Customs of the Xhosa 3
John Barrow
Travels in Southern Africa 5
Christian Latrobe
Music in the Cape 7
Andrew Smith
Songs of the Zoolas 13
Robert Godlonton
Music for the Settler Jubilee 15
Christopher Birkett
Preface to a Solfa Tune-book 18
Andrew Anderson
Music in the Northern Cape and Bechuanaland 19
John Bokwe
Ntsikana, the Story of an African Hymn 21
J. W. Househam
Wings of Song 26
Reuben Caluza
African Music 29
Percival Kirby
The Gora, a Stringed-wind Instrument 32
Frieda Bokwe Matthews
African Music in South Africa 39

Part 2: Apartheid and musicology 41

Edward Dunn
A New Era for Music and Musicians 41
Hugh Tracey
The State of Folk Music in Bantu Africa 44
Ezekiel Mphahlele
Columbia Dance Hall, Marabastad 48
John Blacking
Ocarina Music of the Venda 50
Mona de Beer
King Kong 57
Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim
Africa, Music, and Show Business 60
John Blacking
Tonal Organisation in Venda Initiation Music 62
Joseph Scotch Coko
Reminiscences of Healdtown 66
David Rycroft
Princess Constance Magogo 72
David K. Rycroft
Evidence of Stylistic Continuity in Zulu ‘Town’ Music 79
J.J.A. van der Walt and G.G. Cillié
Aspects of Afrikaans Music 90
Ralph Trewhela
Wait a Minim and King Kong 94
Khabi Mngoma
The Correlation of Folk and Art Music among African Composers 98
W.S.J. Grobler
The FAK and Afrikaans Music 107
David Dargie
The Music of Ntsikana 109
David Coplan
Highbreaks: A Taste of Marabi in the 1920s and ‘30s 116
Anna Bender-Brink
Christian Schubart and the Cape 122
Jaques Malan 
Opera Houses in South Africa 126
Christopher Ballantine
Chris McGregor 130
Howard Ferguson
Arnold van Wyk and Nagmusiek 133

Part 3: Music and social transformation 138

Miriam Makeba
My Story 138
Bongani Mthethwa
The Songs of A.A. Kumalo:
A Study in Nguni and Western Musical Syncretism 140
Lucy Faktor-Kreitzer
From Latvia to South Africa 147
David Dargie
Xhosa Overtone Singing 152
Barry Smith
The Royal School of Church Music in South Africa 156
Melveen Jackson
Tiger Dance, Terukuttu, Tango, and Tchaikovsky: A Politico-Cultural
View of Indian South African Music before 1948 159
Alfred Temba Qabula
But We Sing 170
Veil Erlmann
Reuben T. Caluza and Early Popular Music 172
Christopher Ballantine
Music and Emancipation 181
Sallyann Goodall
Hindu Devotional Music in Durban 192
Desmond Desai
Cape Malay Music 199
Nollene Davies
The Guitar in Zulu Maskanda Tradition 207
Robin Wells
Basotho Mbube 216
David Coplan
Basotho Performance Aesthetics: Sefela and Shebeen Songs 220

Part 4: A New South Africa 231

Veit Erlmann
Isicathamiya in the 1970s-90s 231
Andrew Tracey
Indigenous Instruments 238
Kaiser Netshitangani
Songs of the Venda Murundu School 245
Emmanuelle Olivier
The Art of Metamorphosis – Or the Ju|’hoan Conception of Plurivocality 250
Justin Clarkson-Fletcher et al 
Analysing Kevin Volans’ White Man Sleeps 258
Lara Allen
Kwela 267
Deborah James
Pedi Women’s Kiba Performance 272
Denis-Constant Martin
Coon Carnival: New Year in Cape Town 279
Carol Muller
Nazarite Hymns 285
Stephanas Muller
Stefans Grove: Senate op Afrika-motiewe 289
Christine Lucia
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Uses of Memory 298
Lara Allen
Vocal Jive and Political Identity during the 1950s 305
Grant Olwage
John Knox Bokwe and Black Choralism 310
Martin Scherzinger
The Globalisation of South African Music 320

References 325
List of Sources  349
Index 363

  • Mortaigne, Veronique:
    Cesaria Evora. La voix du Cap-Vert.
    Arles: Actes Sud, 1997. 203 p.

    ISBN 2-7427-1152-X 

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    Cesaria Evora. La voix du Cap-Vert.
    Arles: Actes Sud, 1997. 203 p.

    ISBN 2-7427-1152-X 

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  • Johnson, John William:
    ‘Heelloy’. Modern Poetry and Songs of the Somalis.
    London: HAAN Publishing, 1998. xxiii & 241 p.
    ISBN 978-1-874-20981-2

    CONTENTS

    Foreword to the first edition by B. W. Andrzejewski ix
    Foreword to the 1996 edition by Abdilahi Qarshi xi
    Preface to the first edition xv
    Preface to the 1996 edition xxiii

    1. Introduction
    The social context 1
    The Nature of Traditional Pastoralist Poetry 12
    The Historical Development of Modern Oral Poetry 17

    2. The Family of Miniature Genres
    The Nature of the Family of Miniature Genres 27
    The Poetry of the Miniature Family 32

    3. The emergence of the Belwo
    The Historical Background 49
    The Belwo is Born 53
    The Poetry of the Belwo 59

    4. The Heello: Period One
    The Metamorphosis: Belwo to Heello A 75
    The Modem Poem: Heello A to Heello B 82

    5. The Heello: Period Two
    The Historical Background 95
    The Poetry of the Second Period 103

    6. The Heello: Period Three
    The Historical Background 117
    The Poetry of the Third Period 146

    7. Characteristics of the Heello: All Periods
    Themes Common to All Periods 175
    Structural Characteristics and
    Development Common to All Periods 190
    The Impact of Media on Modern Poetry 208

    8. Conclusion
    The Inheritance of the Heello 215
    Forces Behind the Success and Development of Modern Poetry 216

  • Collins, [Edmund] John:
    Fela. Kalakuta Notes. 2nd edition
    Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2015.  xii & 326 p.
    ISBN 978-0-8195-7539-5 (paper) 978-0-8195-7540-1 (ebook)

    CONTENTS

    Foreword by Banning Eyre ix
    Introduction 1

    Part 1 Early Days
    1 The Birth of Afrobeat 27
    2 Joe Mensah Remembers 41
    3 Fela in Ghana 49
    4 Stan Plange Remembers 29

    Part 2 Confrontation
    5 Kalakuta is Born 67
    6 “JB” Talks about Fela 73
    7 The Kalakuta Republic 81
    8 The Black President 114
    9 Amsterdam and After 125

    Part 3 Retrospect
    10 Mac Tontoh on Fela 139
    11 Frank Talk about Fela 152
    12 Obiba Plays It Again 165
    13 Smart Binete Sorts It Out 174
    14 Anku Checks Out the Beat 178
    15 Nana Danso Orchestrates 183
    16 Some Early Afro-Fusion Pioneers 197
    17 Interview with Fela 204
    18 Afterthoughts and Updates 209
    19. Felabrations at Home and Abroad 238

    Chronology 259
    Notes 269
    Selected Bibliography 281
    Discography 285
    Appendix A: “Shuffering and Shmiling” Score 303
    Index 309

  • Erlmann, Veit (ed.):
    Populäre Musik in Afrika.

    Veröffentlichungen des Museum für Völkerkunde.
    Neue Folge 53. Abteilung Musikethnologie VIII.
    Berlin: Museum für Völkerkunde, 1991. 312 pp. & 2 CDs.
    ISBN 3-88609-213-5

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  • Sweeney, Philip:
    Directory of World Music. A Guide to Performers and their Music.
    With Contributions from Peter Gabriel, Andy Kershaw, Giberto Gil [&] Manu Dibango.
    London: Virgin Books, 1991. 262 p.
    Section Africa 1-81
    ISBN 0-86369-378-4

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    AFRICA

    The North and West
    Introduction: Peter Gabriel 1
    Libya 3
    Tunisia 5
    Algeria 6
    Morocco 13
    Mauritania 16
    Senegal 17
    Mali 20
    Guinea 26
    Guinea-Bissau 29
    Cape Verde 29
    Sierra Leone 31
    Côte d’Ivoire 32
    Ghana 34
    Togo and Benin 36
    Nigeria 37

    Central Africa, The South and East
    Introduction: Manu Dibango 42
    Cameroon 44
    Zaire 49
    Congo 56
    Gabon 56
    Angola 57
    Zambia 58
    Mozambique 59
    Zimbabwe 60
    South Africa 65
    Madagascar 70
    Mauritius and Reunion 71
    Tanzania and Zanzibar 72
    Kenya 74
    Uganda 76
    Burundi 76
    Ethiopia 77
    Sudan 79

  • Lee, Hélène:
    Rockers d’Afrique. Stars et légendes du rock mandinque.
    Paris: Albin Michel, 1988. 223 pp.
    ISBN 2-226-03 139-1 

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