In township tonight! : South Africa's black city music and theatre /

In township tonight! : South Africa's black city music and theatre /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Coplan, David B. (David Bellin)
Edition:	2nd ed.
Imprint:	Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Description:	xvi, 455 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Subject:	Blacks -- South Africa -- Music -- History and criticism. Music -- South Africa -- History and criticism. Black theater -- South Africa. Blacks -- South Africa -- Intellectual life. Black theater. Blacks -- Intellectual life. Blacks -- Music. Music South Africa. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7842493

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ISBN:	9780226115665 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226115672 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226115666 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226115674 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	"First published by Longman Inc. and Ravan Press in 1985"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: in township last night
City life and performing arts in nineteenth-century South Africa
Black Johannesburg, 1900-1920
Black performance culture between the world wars: the rank and file
Black performance culture between the world wars: the situations
Sophiatown: culture and community, 1940-1960
Township music and musicians, 1960-1980
Twenty years of black theatre: the struggle for black city culture
The darkness and the dawn: black popular music since 1980
Jazz and other (con)fusions since 1990
Out of the townships tonight: emerging South African theatre
Conclusion: in township tomorrow night.