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Marabi nights : jazz, 'race' and society in early apartheid South African
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- Creator
- Christopher Ballantine
- Format
- Books; Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [New edition]
- Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 247 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- ISBNs
- 9781869142377, 1869142373
- OCLC
- ocn866582559, ocn827214478
- Accompanied by 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) with track information on p. 232-235.
- Notes on recordings (p. 201-219)
- First published in 1993: Marabi nights, early South African jazz and vaudeville.
- Includes bibliographical references ( pages 220-231) and index.
- Introduction. Memory, History and Context -- Concert and Dance. The Foundations of Black Jazz between the 1920s and the Early 1940s -- Music and Emancipation. The Social Role of Black Jazz and Vaudeville between the 1920s and the Early 1940s -- Music and Repression. Race, Class and Gender in Black Jazz Culture up to the Early 1940s -- Looking to the United States. The Politics of Male Close-Harmony Song Style in the Later 1940s and the 1950s -- Gender and Migrancy. Jazz Culture in the Later 1940s and the 1950s -- Afterword. After Apartheid: Then and Now
- CD. Vaudeville. Stimela no. 1 = The first train (Griffiths Motsieloa and Company) -- Sponono naMarabi = Sponono with Marabi (Griffiths Motsieloa and Company -- Tsaba tsaba ke no. 1 (Motsieloa's Pitch Black Follies) -- Qua qa (William and Wilfred Mseleku) -- Ndunduma = Minedumps (Bantu Glee Singers) -- Emakhaya = At home Snowy Radebe and Company) -- Khanya = Light (Griffiths Motsieloa and Company) -- eGoli = IN Johannesburg (John Mavimbela and Company) -- Aubuti Nkikho = Brother Nkikho (Griffiths Motsieloa and Ignatius Monare) -- eBhayi = In Port Elizabeth (Snowy Radebe and Company) -- Jazz. Sbhinono (Amanzimtoti Players) -- Evelina (Nkandla Guitar Players) --Sponono (Jazz Revellers Band) -- Ntebejana (W.P. Zikali) -- iChain covers = The chain covers ; uMajaji ; Wozxa we Mzala = Come on, everybody (Merry Blackbirds) -- Marabi no. 2 jive (Hot Lips Dance Band) -- Mabuza ; Mkhize (Willie Gumede's Swing Band) -- Heat wave / Irving Berlin (Merry Blackbirds) -- Zulu piano medley, no. 1 ; Zulu piano medley, no. 2 (Thomas Mabiletsa) -- Izikhalo zika Zuluboy = The laments of Zuluboy ; Tsaba tsaba / Solomon 'Zuluboy' Cele (Zuluboy and his Jazz Maniacs)