Sounding the Cape Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa / Denis-Constant Martin.
For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in and around the city. Musical styles and genres produced in Cape Town have therefore been assigned an ìidentityî which is first and foremos...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2013. ©2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (474 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in and around the city. Musical styles and genres produced in Cape Town have therefore been assigned an ìidentityî which is first and foremost social. This volume tries to question the relationship established between musical styles and genres, and social ñ in this case pseudo-racial ñ identities. In Sounding the Cape, Denis-Constant Martin recomposes and examines through the theoretical prism of creolisation the history of music in Cape T |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-410) and index. |
| ISBN: | 192067716X |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Denis-Constant Martin. |