In township tonight! : South Africa's Black city music and theatre / by David Coplan.

Author/creator Coplan, David B.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Longman, 1985, ©1982.
Descriptionx, 278 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, music, portraits ; 25 cm
Subjects
Black people--South Africa. --Music. --History and criticism.
Music--South Africa. --History and criticism.
Black theater--South Africa.
Black people--South Africa. --Intellectual life.

Contents City life and performing arts in nineteenth-century South Africa -- Black Johannesburg, 1900-20 -- Working-class performance culture between the World Wars -- Elite performance culture between the World Wars -- Sophiatown - culture and community, 1940-60 -- Township music and musicians -- Twenty years of black theatre: the struggle for black city culture -- Conclusion. The social dialectics of performance.
Abstract The author's pioneering social history of black South Africa's urban music, dance, and theatre established itself as a classic soon after its publication in 1985. As the first substantial history of black performing arts in South Africa, this book was championed by a broad range of scholars and treasured by fans of South African music. In vivid detail, Coplan comprehensively 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 gumboot dances of mineworkers, and touring minstrelsy and vaudeville acts. This up-to-date edition of a landmark work will be welcomed by scholars of ethnomusicology and African studies, world music fans, and anyone concerned with South Africa and its development.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 84019385
ISBN0582644011 :
ISBN0582644003 (pbk.) :

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