ABSTRACT
Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well as her own personal experiences, noted ethnomusicologist and South African native Carol A. Muller looks at how South Africans have used music to express a sense of place in South Africa, on the African continent, and around the world.
Part One, Creating Connections, provides introductory materials for the study of South African Music. Part Two, Musical Migrations, moves to a more focused overview of significant musical styles in twentieth-century South Africa -- particularly those known through world circuits. Part Three, Focusing In, takes the reader into the heart of two musical cultures with case studies on South African jazz and the music of the Zulu-language followers of Isaiah Shembe. The accompanying downloadable resources offer vivid examples of traditional, popular, and classical South African musical styles.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|70 pages
Creating Connections
part II|81 pages
Twentieth-Century Musical Styles: Music in Migration
chapter Chapter 7|14 pages
Labor Migration: Isicathamiya (to walk stealthily, like a cat, on tip toes)
part III|103 pages
Focusing In: Two Case Studies
chapter Chapter 11|12 pages
Sathima Bea Benjamin's Cape Town
chapter Chapter 13|23 pages
Mission Hymns and the Founding of the Shembe Community
part |9 pages
Afterword