Musical Echoes - South African Women Thinking in Jazz

Informationen zum Autor Carol Ann Muller and Sathima Bea Benjamin Klappentext Tells the story of Sathima Bea Benjamin, a South African jazz singer who moved to the U.S. in the 1960s, in order to consider cultural and racial politics of jazz in a transnational context. Zusammenfassung The life story of the outstanding jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin sheds light on South African jazz history! women in jazz! and American music as a transnational art form. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxiii A Tribute by Abdullah Ibrahim: "Sathima" xxxi Sathima: My Life's Journey as a Jazz Singer xxxiii 1. Beginnings 1 2. A Home Within 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 283 Notes 297 Selected References 325 Index 337

Product details

• Authors: Sathima Bea Benjamin, Sathima Ibrahim, Carol Ann Muller, Carol Ann Benjamin Muller
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2011
• EAN: 9780822349143
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4914-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Refiguring American Music; Refiguring American Music
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)