BOOKS by David B Coplan

In Township Tonight!: South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre more books like this

by David B Coplan

David B. Coplan's pioneering social history of black South Africa's urban music, dance, and theater established itself as a classic soon after its publication in 1985. As the first substantial history of black performing arts in South Africa, "In Township Tonight!" was championed by a broad range of scholars and treasured by fans of South African ...

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In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants more books like this

by David B Coplan

The workers who migrate from Lesotho to the mines and cities of neighbouring South Africa have developed a rich genre of sung oral poetry - "word music" - that focuses on the experiences of migrant life. This music provides a culturally reflexive and consciously artistic account of what it is to be a migrant or part of a migrant's life. It reveals ...

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