Music and Politics in Thirties Britain
Music and Politics in Thirties Britain

Author: John Morris

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-11-03

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1350271241

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Radical domestic politics, musical experimentation, advancing technology and the influence of migration from Europe and Britain's enrichment from it, all had their affects on a remarkable year in musical cultural life in the mid-30s. This book looks at the little-known aspect of music and politics in domestic Britain in 1934, a pivotal year in terms of political and cultural developments. Music and Politics in Thirties Britain focuses on the production, reception and interpretation of classical music in relation to the changes of the 1930s. John Morris treads new ground by examining the relationship between music, musicians and fascism – an area overlooked by existing scholarship. The book expertly traces the complexities and contradictions of British music history in the 1930s as musicians like others in the Arts attempted to engage with the political turmoil of the period. John Morris exemplifies the “cultural turn” in studies of British fascism, and also shows the overlap between ideas of the BUF and more progressive musicians. The result is a stimulating addition to existing scholarship which will be of interest to scholars and students alike.

History of South Africa
History of South Africa

Author: Thula Simpson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-09-01

Total Pages: 667

ISBN-13: 0197681182

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South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. This book explores the country's tumultuous journey from the Second Anglo-Boer War to 2021. Drawing on diaries, letters, oral testimony and diplomatic reports, Thula Simpson follows the South African people through the battles, elections, repression, resistance, strikes, insurrections, massacres, crashes and epidemics that have shaped the nation. Tracking South Africa's path from colony to Union and from apartheid to democracy, Simpson documents the influence of key figures including Jan Smuts, Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, P.W. Botha, Thabo Mbeki and Cyril Ramaphosa. He offers detailed accounts of watershed events like the 1922 Rand Revolt, the Defiance Campaign, Sharpeville, the Soweto uprising and the Marikana massacre. He sheds light on the roles of Gandhi, Churchill, Castro and Thatcher, and explores the impact of the World Wars, the armed struggle and the Border War. Simpson's history charts the post-apartheid transition and the phases of ANC rule, from Rainbow Nation to transformation; state capture to 'New Dawn'. Along the way, it reveals the divisions and solidarities of sport; the nation's economic travails; and painful pandemics, from the Spanish flu to AIDS and Covid-19.

The Lion and the Springbok
The Lion and the Springbok

Author: Ronald Hyam

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-05-15

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 0521824532

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This book traces British and South African relations from the Boer War to the present.

New Dictionary of South African Biography
New Dictionary of South African Biography

Author: E. J. Verwey

Publisher: HSRC Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780796916488

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This series of publications aims to fill the gaps in our history, highlighting in particular the significant roles played by black leaders form all walks of life.

Our Land, Our Life, Our Future
Our Land, Our Life, Our Future

Author: Harvey M. Feinberg

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781868887484

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This ground-breaking book evaluates a topic central to the past century of South African history - the 1913 Natives Land Act and its consequences. Applying rigorous scholarly standards, the book analyzes, reassesses, and then challenges previously accepted ideas about the impact of the Natives Land Act. A product of meticulous research in major South African archives, the book is notable for its reference to a wide array of documents that scholars have until now neglected. A plethora of evidence provides the data to challenge major theories about the impact of the Natives Land Act and to illuminate changes in government land policy. The book convincingly demonstrates that, through African agency, black South Africans continued to buy land after 1913, thereby challenging the territorial segregation goals of the rural white population. It also includes important contrasts between the 1910-1948 period and the apartheid era. Our Land, Our Life, Our Future will appeal to a wide readership, including international researchers interested in land history, South African-oriented academics, and the South African legal community - lawyers, policymakers, and NGOs dealing with the land claims process. Readers will be intrigued by this rich vein of new material and will find that it includes important background information for the post-1994 restitution process. *** "...this is an important, insightful book sure to have wide interdisciplinary appeal. The Natives Land Act continues to have enormous symbolic (and legal) significance, and Feinberg nicely connects segregation with apartheid eras, past with present. Essential." - Choice, Vol. 53, No. 1, September 2015 *** Selected for the annual CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles list for 2015 in African studies. (Series: Hidden Histories) [Subject: African Studies, History, Legal History]

Fifty Years of Flying Fun
Fifty Years of Flying Fun

Author: Rod Dean

Publisher: Grub Street Publishing

Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 190980827X

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Fifty Years of Flying Fun covers, in a roughly chronological order, over fifty continuous years of flying. This ranges from joining the RAF in 1962, through his intriguing first operational tour on Hunters in Aden, the early days of the Jaguar in Germany and, finally in the RAF, an almost outrageous two years flying the Jaguar and Hunter with the Sultan of OmanÕs Air Force. His subsequent civil flying has been exclusively in the General Aviation and flying display fields as a flying instructor and well known display pilot, including being involved in many varied and interesting display-related episodes. With in excess of 7,000 flying hours on 59 different types Ð and only one aircraft (Spencer FlackÕs Mustang) with a working autopilot Ð Rod gives a clear, and largely humorous, insight into the operation of a cross section of piston and jet engine vintage aircraft and his undoubted fifty years of fun since the first solo on 19 March 1963. Fifty Years of Flying Fun is not just a book for the aviation enthusiast, but for anyone wanting to learn about any aspect of flying history through the memoir of a man who lived through it all.