In Township Tonight! - South Africa''s Black City Music and Theatre

Klappentext Explores more than three centuries of the diverse history of South Africa's black popular culture, taking readers from indigenous musical traditions into the world of slave orchestras, pennywhistlers, clergyman-composers, the gum-boot dances of mineworkers, and touring minstrelsy and vaudeville acts. Zusammenfassung Explores more than three centuries of the diverse history of South Africa's black popular culture, taking readers from indigenous musical traditions into the world of slave orchestras, pennywhistlers, clergyman-composers, the gum-boot dances of mineworkers, and touring minstrelsy and vaudeville acts.

Product details

• Authors: David B. Coplan, COPLAN DAVID B
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.02.2008
• EAN: 9780226115672
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11567-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusico; Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous