Music, modernity, and the global imagination : South Africa and the West / / Veit Erlmann

• Autore: Erlmann Veit
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 780/.968
• Soggetto topico: Ethnicity; Intercultural communication; Music - African influences; Music - South Africa - Western influences
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; Part I: ""Heartless Swindle"": The African Choir and the Zulu Choir in England and America; 1. Archaic Images, Utopian Dreams: Forms of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness; 2. ""Style Is Just the Man Himself"": (Auto)Biography, Self-Identity, and Fictions of Global Order; 3. Inventing the Metropolis: Josiah Semouse's Travel Diary and the Dilemmas of Representation; 4. ""Spectatorial Lust"": Spectacle and the Crisis of Imperial Knowledge; 5. Symbols of Inclusion and Exclusion: Nationalism, Colonial Consciousness, and the ""Great Hymn"" ; 6. Variations upon a Theme: The Zulu Choir in London, 1892-937. ""God's Own Country"": Black America, South Africa, and the Spirituals; 8. Interlude; Part II: ""Days of Miracle and Wonder"": Graceland and the Continuities of the Postcolonial World; 9. Figuring Culture: The Crisis of Modernity and Twentieth-Century Historical Consciousness; 10. Hero on the Pop Chart: Paul Simon and the Aesthetics of World Music; 11. Fantasies of Home: The Antinomies of Modernity and the Music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo ; 12. Dream Journeys: Techniques of the Self and the Biographical Imagination of Bhekizizwe J. Shabalala13. Songs of Truth and Healing: Searching for a New South Africa; 14. Communities of Style: Musical Figures of Black Diasporic Identity; 15. Dances with Power: Michael Jackson, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and the Ambiguities of Race; 16. Epilogue: The Art of the Impossible; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: How do Western images of Africa and African representations of the West mirror each other? This study focuses on the tours of two black South African choirs in England and America in the 1890s, and the popularity of Ladysmith Black Mambazo since 1986.
• Titolo autorizzato: Music, modernity, and the global imagination
• ISBN: 9786610761159; 0-19-535249-1; 1-280-76115-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996247989703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno