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Music, modernity, and the global imagination: South Africa and the West

Veit Erlmann 1999 © Oxford University Press
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  • 9780195352498 (ebook)
  • 9780195123678 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction (page 3)
  • Part I "Heartless Swindle": The African Choir and the Zulu Choir in England and America (page 11)
    • 1. Archaic Images, Utopian Dreams: Forms of Nineteenth-Century Historical Consciousness (page 15)
    • 2. "Style Is Just the Man Himself": (Auto)Biography, Self-Identity, and Fictions of Global Order (page 32)
    • 3. Inventing the Metropolis: Josiah Semouse's Travel Diary and the Dilemmas of Representation (page 59)
    • 4. "Spectatorial Lust": Spectacle and the Crisis of Imperial Knowledge (page 86)
    • 5. Symbols of Inclusion and Exclusion: Nationalism, Colonial Consciousness, and the "Great Hymn" (page 111)
    • 6. Variations upon a Theme: The Zulu Choir in London, 1892-93 (page 133)
    • 7. "God's Own Country": Black America, South Africa, and the Spirituals (page 144)
    • 8. Interlude (page 165)
  • Part II "Days of Miracles and Wonder": Graceland and the Continuities of the Postcolonial World (page 167)
    • 9. Figuring Culture: The Crisis of Modernity and Twentieth-Century Historical Consciousness (page 173)
    • 10. Hero on the Pop Chart: Paul Simon and the Aesthetics of World Music (page 179)
    • 11. Fantasies of Home: The Antinomies of Modernity and the Music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo (page 199)
    • 12. Dream Journeys: Techniques of the Self and the Biographical Imagination of Bhekizizwe J. Shabalala (page 214)
    • 13. Songs of Truth and Healing: Searching for a New South Africa (page 234)
    • 14. Communities of Style: Musical Figures of Black Diasporic Identity (page 246)
    • 15. Dances with Power: Michael Jackson, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and the Ambiguities of Race (page 268)
    • 16. Epilogue: The Art of the Impossible (page 281)
  • Notes (page 283)
  • Index (page 308)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
YES 32: (2000): 212-213 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3185271
ETMU 45.2 (Spring - Summer, 2001): 355-356 http://www.jstor.org/stable/852680
BJE 9.2 (2000): 156-157 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3060653
AE 27.2 (May 2000): 490-491 http://www.jstor.org/stable/647181
MAL 82.1 (Feb. 2001): 152-154 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3526484
JRMA 126.1 (2001): 117-141 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3557516
AFSR 42.3 (Dec. 1999): 202-204 http://www.jstor.org/stable/525279
JSAS 28.2 (Jun. 2002):473-475 http://www.jstor.org/stable/823402
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