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Composing Apartheid
Grant . Ed(S): Olwage
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Description for Composing Apartheid
Paperback. Charts the musical world of a notorious period in world history, apartheid South Africa. This book explores how music was produced through, and was productive of, key features of apartheid's social and political topography. Editor(s): Olwage, Grant. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, music. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJP; AV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
Composing Apartheid is the first book ever to chart the musical world of a notorious period in world history, apartheid South Africa. It explores how music was produced through, and was productive of, key features of apartheid's social and political topography.The collection of essays is intentionally broad, and the contributors include historians, sociologists and anthropologists, as well as ethnomusicologists, music theorists and historical musicologists.The essays focus on a variety of musics (jazz, music in the Western art tradition, popular music) and on major composers (such as Kevin Volans) and works (Handel's Messiah). Musical institutions and previously little-researched performers (such as ... Read more
Composing Apartheid is the first book ever to chart the musical world of a notorious period in world history, apartheid South Africa. It explores how music was produced through, and was productive of, key features of apartheid's social and political topography.The collection of essays is intentionally broad, and the contributors include historians, sociologists and anthropologists, as well as ethnomusicologists, music theorists and historical musicologists.The essays focus on a variety of musics (jazz, music in the Western art tradition, popular music) and on major composers (such as Kevin Volans) and works (Handel's Messiah). Musical institutions and previously little-researched performers (such as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Wits University Press South Africa
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Johannesburg, South Africa
ISBN
9781868144563
SKU
V9781868144563
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About Grant . Ed(S): Olwage
Grant Olwage is a senior lecturer in the School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. An aspiring DJ, he performs as Dr G.
Reviews for Composing Apartheid
This is one of the best books to have emerged from South African musicology in the last decade... It opens up a new level of discourse about music during the apartheid era: a level on which the theoretical, the ethical, the historical and the aesthetic play against each other in newly meaningful ways. Roger Parker, Cambridge University, UK