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Author:

Coplan, David B. (David Bellin)

Title:

In township tonight! : South Africa's Black city music and theatre / David Coplan.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xvi, 455 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Blacks--South Africa--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Music--South Africa--History and criticism.
Black theater--South Africa.
Blacks--South Africa--Intellectual life.

Notes:

"First published by Longman, Inc. and Ravan Press in 1985"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : in township last night -- City life and performing arts in nineteenth-century South Africa -- Black Johannesburg, 1900-1920 -- Black performance culture between the world wars : the 'rank and file' -- Black performance culture between the world wars: the 'situations' -- Sophiatown : culture and community, 1940-1960 -- Township music and musicians, 1960-1980 -- Twenty years of Black theatre : the struggle for Black city culture -- The darkness and the dawn : Black popular music since 1980 -- Jazz and other (con)fusions since 1990 -- Out of the townships tonight : emerging South African theatre -- Conclusion : in township tomorrow night.

Series:

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology

ISBN:

0226115674 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226115672 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226115666 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226115665 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)172521731

LCCN:

2007037684

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)