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Author | : Louise Meintjes |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2003-02-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822330141 |
DIVAn ethnography of the recording of Mbaqanga music, that examines its relation to issues of identity, South African politics, and global political economy./div
Author | : Louise Meintjes |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2003-02-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0822384639 |
Boosting the bass guitar, blending the vocals, overdubbing percussion while fretting over shoot-outs in the street. Grumbling about a producer, teasing a white engineer, challenging an artist to feel his African beat. Sound of Africa! is a riveting account of the production of a mbaqanga album in a state-of-the-art recording studio in Johannesburg. Made popular internationally by Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens, mbaqanga's distinctive style features a bass solo voice and soaring harmonies of a female frontline over electric guitar, bass, keyboard, and drumset. Louise Meintjes chronicles the recording and mixing of an album by Izintombi Zesimanje, historically the rival group of the Mahotella Queens. Set in the early 1990s during South Africa’s tumultuous transition from apartheid to democratic rule, Sound of Africa! offers a rare portrait of the music recording process. It tracks the nuanced interplay among South African state controls, the music industry's transnational drive, and the mbaqanga artists' struggles for political, professional, and personal voice. Focusing on the ways artists, producers, and sound engineers collaborate in the studio control room, Meintjes reveals not only how particular mbaqanga sounds are shaped technically, but also how egos and artistic sensibilities and race and ethnicity influence the mix. She analyzes how the turbulent identity politics surrounding Zulu ethnic nationalism impacted mbaqanga artists' decisions in and out of the studio. Conversely, she explores how the global consumption of Afropop and African images fed back into mbaqanga during the recording process. Meintjes is especially attentive to the ways the emotive qualities of timbre (sound quality or tone color) forge complex connections between aesthetic practices and political ideology. Vivid photos by the internationally renowned photographer TJ Lemon further dramatize Meintjes’ ethnography.
Author | : Noel Lobley |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0819580783 |
Winner of IASPM Book Prize, given by IASPM, 2023 This book is an ethnographic study of sound archives and the processes of creative decolonization that form alternative modes of archiving and curating in the 21st century. It explores the histories and afterlives of sound collections and practices at the International Library of African Music. Sound Fragments follows what happens when a colonial sound archive is repurposed and reimagined by local artists in post-apartheid South Africa. The narrative speaks to larger issues in sound studies, curatorial practices, and the reciprocity and ethics of listening to and reclaiming culture. Sound Fragments interrogates how Xhosa arts activism contributes to an expanding notion of what a sound or cultural archive could be, and where it may resonate now and in future.
Author | : Hugh Tracey |
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Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : Simha Arom |
Publisher | : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Music |
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An original approach to the understanding of the complete and sophisticated patterns of polyphony and polyrhythm of African music.
Author | : Louis Chude-Sokei |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2015-12-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 081957578X |
The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian science fiction, cybertheory, and artificial intelligence. All of these facets, according to Louis Chude-Sokei, are part of a history in which music has been central to the equation that links blacks and machines. As Chude-Sokei shows, science fiction itself has roots in racial anxieties and he traces those anxieties across two centuries and a range of writers and thinkers—from Samuel Butler, Herman Melville, and Edgar Rice Burroughs to Sigmund Freud, William Gibson, and Donna Haraway, to Norbert Weiner, Sylvia Wynter, and Samuel R. Delany.
Author | : Hugh Tracey |
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Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Music |
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Author | : Tsitsi Ella Jaji |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0199936374 |
Stereomodernism and amplifying the Black Atlantic -- Sight reading: early Black South African transcriptions of freedom -- Négritude musicology: poetry, performance and statecraft in Senegal -- What women want: selling hi-fi in consumer magazines and film -- 'Soul to soul': echo-locating histories of slavery and freedom from Ghana -- Pirate's choice: hacking into (post- )pan-African futures -- Epilogue: Singing songs.
Author | : Shana L. Redmond |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081477041X |
"An extraordinary, innovative, and generative book." - George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place