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ISBN: | 1322221103 143991138X 9781322221106 9781439911389 1439911363 9781439911365
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | Music and Social Change in South Africa looks at contemporary maskanda-a folk musical genre distinguished by fast guitar picking and blues-style vocal intonation-against the backdrop of South Africa''s history. A performance practice that emerged in the early decades of the twentieth century among Zulu migrant workers, maskanda is strongly associated with young Zulu men''s experiences of repression and dislocation during imperial and, more particularly, apartheid rule. Working closely with translated song lyrics and musical notation-and applying musical and socio-political analysis to this mus.
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Other form: | Print version: Olsen, Kathryn, 1957- Music and social change in South Africa 9781439911365
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