Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz
- Author: Benjamin, Sathima Bea
- Author: Muller, Carol A.
Ibrahim has cited the loss of information as one legacy of apartheid, and the broader context-filling in those gaps-is also key to the appeal of Muller's meticulously researched book." -- Marcus... — More…
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Contents
- List of Figures ix
- Preface xiii
- Acknowledgments xxiii
- A Tribute by Abdullah Ibrahim: "Sathima" xxxi
- Sathima: My Life's Journey as a Jazz Singer xxxiii
- 1. Beginnings 1
- 2. A Home Within 11
- Call: Recollecting a Musical Past 11
- Response: Entanglement in Race and Music 33
- 3. Cape Jazz 53
- Call: Popular Music, Dance Bands, and Jazz 53
- Response: Imagining Musical Lineage through Duke and Billie 95
- 4. Jazz Migrancy 128
- Call: Musicians Abroad 128
- Response: A New African Diaspora 167
- 5. A New York Embrace 189
- Call: Coming to the City 189
- Response: Women Thinking in Jazz, or the Poetics of a Musical Self 217
- 6. Returning Home? 242
- Call: Cape Town Love / An Archeology of Popular Song 242
- Response: Jazz History as Living History 260
- 7. Musical Echoes 271
- Call: Sathima's Musical Echo 271
- Response: Reflections on Echo 274
- 8. Outcomes-Jazz in the World 283
- Notes 297
- Selected References 325
- Index 337