South African Popular Music

Lior Phillips (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8342-7 (ISBN)

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From the storied ache of mbube harmonies of the ‘40s to the electronic boom of kwaito and the amapiano and house explosion of the ‘00s, this book explores vignettes taken from across South Africa’s popular music history. There are moments in time where music can be a mighty weapon in the fight for freedom. Disguised in a danceable hook or shouted for the world to hear, artists have used songs to deliver important truths and bring listeners together in the face of a segregated reality. In the grip of the brutal apartheid era, South Africa crafted its own idiosyncratic popular musical vernacular that operated both as sociopolitical tool and realm of escape. In a country with 11 official languages, music had the power to unite South Africans in protest. Artists bloomed a new idyll from the branches of countless storied musical traditions, and in turn found themselves banned or exiled—the profound epiphany that music can exist both within the pleasure of itself and for serving a far greater purpose.

Lior Phillips is a South African music and culture journalist originally from Cape Town, now based in Chicago, USA. She writes about music, film, art, and more for international publications, including Dazed and Confused Magazine, The Recording Academy, Variety, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, The Quietus, NPR, The Guardian, Consequence of Sound, and GQ South Africa. In addition, she is the creator, producer, and host of This Must Be the Gig, a podcast dedicated to artists’ vital memories of their first gigs and passion for live music and performance.

Introduction: Simunye: We Are One1. The Lion Sleeps, The Evening Bird Sings
2. Bantu Radio and Shebeen Jazz
3. The Rebel Flute
4. They Cannot Say Qongothwane
5. Separate Development and Exile
6. Grace, the Land, and Graceland
7. The White Zulu
8. Sun City, Bubblegum, and Shifting Afrikaans
9. Free Nelson Mandela
10. Creating the New: Mzansi Fo Sho
11. Our House
Ten Essential Tracks
Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	09.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 197 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-5013-8342-6 / 1501383426
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-8342-7 / 9781501383427
Zustand	Neuware