muller&benjamin2011
Muller, Carol Ann & Sathima Bea Benjamin: |
CONTENTS
List of figures ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xxiii
A tribute by Abdulla Ibrahim: “Sathima” xxxi
Sathima: My Life’s Journey as a Jazz Singer xxxiii
1. Beginnings 1
2. A HomeWithin 11
Call: Recollecting a Musical Past 11
Response: Entanglement in Race and Music 33
3. Cape Jazz 53
Call: Popular Music, Dance Bands, and Jazz 53
Response: Imagining Musical Lineage through
Duke and Billie 95
4. Jazz Migrancy 128
Call: Musicians Abroad 128
Response: A New African Diaspora 167
5. A New York Embrace 189
Call: Coming to the City 189
Response: Women Thinking in Jazz, or the Poetics
of a Musical Self 217
6. Returning Home? 242
Call: Cape Town Love / An Archeology of Popular Song 242
Response: Jazz History as Living History 260
7. Musical Echoes 271
Call: Sathima’s Musical Echo 271
Response: Reflections on Echo 274
8. Outcomes – Jazz in the World 281
Notes 297
Selected references 325
Index 337