Soweto Blues

Soweto Blues
Author: Gwen Ansell
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2005-09-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780826417534

Tells the remarkable story of how jazz became a key part of South Africa's struggle in the 20th century, and provides a fascinating overview of the ongoing links between African and American styles of music. Ansell illustrates how jazz occupies a unique place in South African music.Through interviews with hundreds of musicians, she pieces together a vibrant narrative history, bringing to life the early politics of resistance, the atmosphere of illegal performance spaces, the global anti-apartheid influence of Hugh Masakela and Miriam Makeba, as well as the post-apartheid upheavals in the national broadcasting and recording industries.

The Apartheid City and Beyond

The Apartheid City and Beyond
Author: David M. Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1134902972

This book explains how apartheid changed South Africa's cities, how people responded to regain some control over urban life, and how the forces of urbanization held back under apartheid will affect the post-apartheid era.

Soweto Inside Out

Soweto Inside Out
Author: Adam Roberts
Publisher: Penguin Global
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This is a title about Soweto from inside and out. It is an effort to mark a century since the first forced removals of black Africans from central Johannesburg to the banks of the Klipspruit River. It is also in recognition of the limited books available on a world-famous city. Soweto's huge growth came in the post-war decades. One famous resident Walter Sisulu believed that the country's modern history is impossible to separate from that of its most famous township. 'The history of South Africa cannot be understood outside the history of Soweto the development of the township, and the trials and tribulations of its people are a microcosm of the history of this country.' The township became a focus of world attention in 1976 during bloody repression of student protests, and again during the violence of the Eighties.

The World

The World
Author: Jan Morris
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2005-03-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393326482

A breathtakingly vivid guide to our greatest cosmopolitan cities and culturesfrom Manhattan to Venice and from Baghdad to Barbados, this book assembles 50years of Morris's finest travel writing.

The Soweto Uprising

The Soweto Uprising
Author: Noor Nieftagodien
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2014-12-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0821445235

The Soweto uprising was a true turning point in South Africa’s history. Even to contemporaries, it seemed to mark the beginning of the end of apartheid. This compelling book examines both the underlying causes and the immediate factors that led to this watershed event. It looks at the crucial roles of Black Consciousness ideology and nascent school-based organizations in shaping the character and form of the revolt. What began as a peaceful and coordinated demonstration rapidly turned into a violent protest when police opened fire on students. This short history explains the uprising and its aftermath from the perspective of its main participants, the youth, by drawing on a rich body of oral histories.

The Jo'burg Gazette

The Jo'burg Gazette
Author: Louis Dezelan
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2018-10-22
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1506907466

In his book, The Jo'Burg Gazette, Louis A. Dezelan captures a snapshot in time that chronicles what it was like to live in South Africa during the demise of Apartheid. Dezelan offers a first-hand account of eclectic experiences in one of the world's most fascinating countries; from the antics of such simple creatures as the dung beetle, to the thrill of personally seeing the 2.5-million-year-old skull of one of the earliest hominoids, to the battlegrounds of the Zulu Wars, to the hatred that still lingered in some citizens who lost privileges with the collapse of Apartheid. The Jo'Burg Gazette is a quick and easy read that will allow you to feel as though you lived through a complicated and captivating time. Keywords: Dezelan, South Africa, Apartheid, Jo'Burg, Zulu Wars, Dugga Boys, Botwsana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Cape Town

Class in Soweto

Class in Soweto
Author: Peter Alexander
Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Indigenous languages
ISBN: 9781869142209

Soweto, South Africa's most populous and politically important township, is in many ways the microcosm of the country's stratification of extremes. This study offers an in-depth look at the phenomenon of class and its ramifications from the point of view of urban South Africa, using an analysis of more than 2000 questionnaires and offering insights gleaned over a six-year period.

O'Mandingo!

O'Mandingo!
Author: Eric Miyeni
Publisher: Jacana Media
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1770091874

Based on the controversial but popular e-zine, this collection of opinion pieces and essays analyzes current topics facing postapartheid South Africa; including black economic empowerment, affirmative action, race, poverty, and affluence, while also touching on such lighter topics as sports, movies, love, and friendship. Black pride, strength, unity, and prosperity are central themes in these articles, creating a unique picture of the current South African black consciousness movement.