Sonic Spaces of the Karoo: The Sacred Music of a South African Coloured Community by Marie Jorritsma
A groundbreaking study of music in an ethnically marginalized South African community
Sonic Spaces of the Karoo
Sonic Spaces of the Karoo
Summary
A groundbreaking study of music in an ethnically marginalized South African community
Sonic Spaces of the Karoo Summary
Sonic Spaces of the Karoo Reviews
Marie Jorritsma's book signals nothing less than a whole new departure in South African musical studies. It is the first serious attempt to account for the role of 'coloured' music in the country's wider acoustic landscape. This has never been tried before. Sonic Spaces of the Karoo is written in an accessible style, it is theoretically grounded, and it is rich in ethnographic description. I highly recommend it.
-Veit Erlmann, Endowed Chair of Music History, Professor of Ethnomusicology and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, and author of Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality
-Veit Erlmann, Endowed Chair of Music History, Professor of Ethnomusicology and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, and author of Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality
About Marie Jorritsma
Marie Jorritsma is Senior Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Author's Note
List of Illustrations
List of Music Examples
Preface
1. Introduction: The Challenges of Inscribing Coloured Voices
2. Karoo People and Places
3. Hidden Transcripts: How Hymns Reveal History
4. Senzeni na: Interrelationships Between the Music of Mission and Independent African Church Denominations
5. Singing the Queen's English: Church Choirs in Kroonvale
6. Mothers of the Church: Women's Society Music and the Politics of Gender
7. Conclusion: Reflections on Karoo Sonic Spaces
Glossary
References
Index
Additional information
GOR012068431
9781439902370
1439902372
Sonic Spaces of the Karoo: The Sacred Music of a South African Coloured Community by Marie Jorritsma
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Temple University Press,U.S.
20110521
224
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