Title Music, modernity, and the global imagination : South Africa and the West / Veit Erlmann

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : illustrations Series ACLS Humanities E-Book Contents Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Heartless Swindle: The African Choir and the Zulu Choir in England and America -- 1. Archaic Images, Utopian Dreams: Forms of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness -- 2. Style Is Just the Man Himself: (Auto)Biography, Self-Identity, and Fictions of Global Order -- 3. Inventing the Metropolis: Josiah Semouse's Travel Diary and the Dilemmas of Representation -- 4. Spectatorial Lust: Spectacle and the Crisis of Imperial Knowledge 5. Symbols of Inclusion and Exclusion: Nationalism, Colonial Consciousness, and the Great Hymn6. Variations upon a Theme: The Zulu Choir in London, 1892â€?93 -- 7. God's Own Country: Black America, South Africa, and the Spirituals -- 8. Interlude -- Part II: Days of Miracle and Wonder: Graceland and the Continuities of the Postcolonial World -- 9. Figuring Culture: The Crisis of Modernity and Twentieth-Century Historical Consciousness -- 10. Hero on the Pop Chart: Paul Simon and the Aesthetics of World Music 11. Fantasies of Home: The Antinomies of Modernity and the Music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo12. Dream Journeys: Techniques of the Self and the Biographical Imagination of Bhekizizwe J. Shabalala -- 13. Songs of Truth and Healing: Searching for a New South Africa -- 14. Communities of Style: Musical Figures of Black Diasporic Identity -- 15. Dances with Power: Michael Jackson, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and the Ambiguities of Race -- 16. Epilogue: The Art of the Impossible -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L Mn -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- x -- y -- z Summary How do Western images of Africa and African representations of the West mirror each other? This study focuses on the tours of two black South African choirs in England and America in the 1890s, and the popularity of Ladysmith Black Mambazo since 1986 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ACLS Humanities, viewed September 9, 2014) Subject South African Choir. Zulu Choir. Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Musical group) SUBJECT Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Musical group) fast South African Choir fast Zulu Choir fast Ladysmith Black Mambazo gnd South African Choir gnd Zulu Choir gnd Subject Music -- South Africa -- Western influences Music -- African influences. Intercultural communication. Ethnicity. Music -- South Africa Choral singing -- South Africa ethnicity. MUSIC -- History & Criticism. Choral singing Ethnicity Intercultural communication Music -- African influences Music Music -- Western influences Kulturkontakt Musik Interculturele communicatie. Beïnvloeding. Muziek. Musique -- Afrique du Sud -- Influence occidentale. Musique -- Influence africaine. South Africa Westliche Welt Südafrika (Staat) Form Electronic book ISBN 9780195352498 0195352491

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