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Arts and Africa: BBC African Service, no. 111
Hubert Ogunde: a musical celebrity
South African punk rock, new wave and alternative music, 1977 - 1989

This study documents the history and lyrics of a counter culture of South African
punk rock, new wave and alternative music from the late nineteen-seventies and
nineteen-eighties. While attempting to recover a lost history of this oppositional
Introduction to the history of music amongst Indian South Africans in Natal 1860- 1948 : towards a politico-cultural understanding

The study concerns itself expression of music and the meanings associated with it. Music forms, music personalities, and music functions are traced. Some explanations of the relationships between class structures, religious expression, political affiliation, and music are suggested.
Musical Instruments and entertainment at Hindi Weddings

WHEN the first Indian indentured labourers
came to South Africa they brought some
small musical instruments with them. The
music o these instruments gave pleasure to
the guests ttending the first Hindi wedding
on South Aft~an soil. Most of these instruments
Africa in rhythm and literature

Looking at music, television and culture.
The New African: Volume 8, Number 2, 1969
Jazz epistle-7. Cecil Taylor: motion and the fundamental soul

Letters to the editor.
Jazz epistle - 6

Incident on a Highveld Farm.
Jazz epistle-5

An article about the cancellation of music concerts due to South African Government race policies.
Dollar Brand

An article about the jazz pianist, Dollar Brand.
The New African: Volume 4, Number 2, April 1965
Jazz epistle-4

Jazz South Africa makes the big time jazz scene.
Jazz epistle

Jazz music and musicians.
The Duke's men

Studies by a South African artist of the Duke Ellington concert tour of Britain.
Jazz epistle-2

The "freedom" jazz movement.
Jazz epistle

Looking at the lack of development of jazz music in South Africa.
"Not enough night"

Negritude's evasive ethos.
The meaning of the "Freedom now suite"

One of America's jazz musicians who had long been strongly involved emotionally in the movements for integration in America and national autonomy in Africa was Max Roach.
"We of Africa"

Unlike Easterners who are given to meditation or Westerners who have an inquisitive turn of mind we of Africa, belonging neither to the East or to the West, are fundamentally observers, penetrating observers, relying more on intuition than on the process of reasoning.

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336 records found.