A Composer in Africa
A Composer in Africa

Author: Stephanus Muller

Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1920109048

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Grové was arguably the first composer to incorporate Black African elements into the fabric of his music, venturing far beyond mere couleur locale to forge a creative synthesis of the indigenous and the "Western". His vast oeuvre encompasses every genre, from opera and ballet to chamber music, orchestral works and song. But he is also a fine essayist, and his short fiction has received praise from André P. Brink. This is the first study of its kind to be devoted to a South African composer.

Black Composers of Southern Africa
Black Composers of Southern Africa

Author: Yvonne Huskisson

Publisher: HSRC Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780796912527

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This publication contains details of a new up-and-coming generation of composers. It provides information on 318 composers and as such is a standard reference word on local composers.

Composing Apartheid
Composing Apartheid

Author: Grant Olwage

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2008-06-01

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 1868149390

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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, as well as how music and musicians contested and even helped to conquer apartheid. 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 music (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 the African National Congress’s troupe-in-exile, Amandla) are explored. The writers move well beyond their subject matter, intervening in debates on race, historiography, and postcolonial epistemologies and pedagogies.

Fault Lines
Fault Lines

Author: Jonathan Jansen

Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA

Published: 2020-03-31

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1928480497

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What is the link, if any, between race and disease? How did the term baster as ‘mixed race’ come to be mistranslated from ‘incest’ in the Hebrew Bible? What are the roots of racial thinking in South African universities? How does music fall on the ear of black and white listeners? Are new developments in genetics simply a backdoor for the return of eugenics? For the first time, leading scholars in South Africa from different disciplines take on some of these difficult questions about race, science and society in the aftermath of apartheid. This book offers an important foundation for students pursuing a broader education than what a typical degree provides, and a must-read resource for every citizen concerned about the lingering effects of race and racism in South Africa and other parts of the world.

African Music
African Music

Author: Francis Bebey

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 1999-08-01

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 161374661X

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Engaging and enlightening, this guide explores African music's forms, musicians, instruments, and place in the life of the people. A discography classified by country, theme, group, and instrument is also included.

African Acronyms and Abbreviations
African Acronyms and Abbreviations

Author: David E. Hall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-12-17

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1474247261

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This is a directory of approximately 13,000 acronyms and abbreviations relating to Africa, including names of societies, institutions, associations, movements, government departments, agencies, ministries, committees, trade unions and commercial companies, from the 19th century onwards, which have been gathered from scholarly monographs and journal articles. The acronyms and abbreviations are international in scope, with many cross-references.