African Stars
Studies in Black South African Performance
Cloth $65.00
ISBN: 9780226217222
Published September 1991
Paper $22.00
ISBN: 9780226217246
Published September 1991
List of Illustrations List of Musical Examples A Note on Orthography and Translations Preface 1. Introduction 2. "A Feeling of Prejudice": Orpheus M. McAdoo and the Virginia Jubilee Singers in South Africa, 1890-1898 3. Cultural Osmosis, Ethnicity, and Tradition in Black Popular Music in Durban, 1913-1939 4. "Horses in the Race Course": The Domestication of Ingoma Dance, 1929-1939 5. "An African Star": Reuben T. Caluza and Early Popular Music in South Africa 6. "Singing Brings Joy to the Distressed": The Early Social History of Zulu Migrant Workers' Choral Music 7. Conclusion: South African Black Music and the Wider African Field Notes References Index
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