Veit Erlmann
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195123678
- eISBN:
- 9780199868797
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195123678.003.0011
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter focuses on the collaboration between the South African choral isicathamiya group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and US pop star Paul Simon on the Grammy Award winning album “Graceland” in ...
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This chapter focuses on the collaboration between the South African choral isicathamiya group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and US pop star Paul Simon on the Grammy Award winning album “Graceland” in 1986. Far from showcasing the vitality of South African musical tradition alone, a track such as “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” seeks to soften the more strident tonalities of the anti-apartheid struggle by foregrounding collaboration and stylistic closure.Less
This chapter focuses on the collaboration between the South African choral isicathamiya group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and US pop star Paul Simon on the Grammy Award winning album “Graceland” in 1986. Far from showcasing the vitality of South African musical tradition alone, a track such as “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” seeks to soften the more strident tonalities of the anti-apartheid struggle by foregrounding collaboration and stylistic closure.
Veit Erlmann
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195123678
- eISBN:
- 9780199868797
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195123678.003.0012
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter discusses the cultural and historical background of the music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Essentially originating from the harsh world of labor migration, isicathamiya is anything but ...
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This chapter discusses the cultural and historical background of the music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Essentially originating from the harsh world of labor migration, isicathamiya is anything but traditional. It has enabled migrant workers to articulate complex and multiply determined identities, while at the same time articulating nostalgia for rootedness and a social order predicated on stable and hierarchical gender relations.Less
This chapter discusses the cultural and historical background of the music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Essentially originating from the harsh world of labor migration, isicathamiya is anything but traditional. It has enabled migrant workers to articulate complex and multiply determined identities, while at the same time articulating nostalgia for rootedness and a social order predicated on stable and hierarchical gender relations.
Veit Erlmann
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195123678
- eISBN:
- 9780199868797
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195123678.003.0015
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter focuses on the song “Mbube” by Solomon Linda, a South African classic and milestone in the evolution of isicathamiya. “Mbube” has become the subject of many cover versions, most notably ...
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This chapter focuses on the song “Mbube” by Solomon Linda, a South African classic and milestone in the evolution of isicathamiya. “Mbube” has become the subject of many cover versions, most notably “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by the Tokens. Although most of these cover versions are exoticizing Africa, there is also a version performed jointly by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the Afro-British female a cappella group, Mint Juleps, which articulates black diasporic consciousness.Less
This chapter focuses on the song “Mbube” by Solomon Linda, a South African classic and milestone in the evolution of isicathamiya. “Mbube” has become the subject of many cover versions, most notably “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by the Tokens. Although most of these cover versions are exoticizing Africa, there is also a version performed jointly by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and the Afro-British female a cappella group, Mint Juleps, which articulates black diasporic consciousness.
Samuel A. Floyd
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780195307245
- eISBN:
- 9780190651305
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195307245.003.0010
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
This chapter aims to explore the trans-Atlantic movement of music from the Americas back to Africa, beginning in the early nineteenth century. In so doing, the chapter debunks the notion that the ...
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This chapter aims to explore the trans-Atlantic movement of music from the Americas back to Africa, beginning in the early nineteenth century. In so doing, the chapter debunks the notion that the movement of African musics was not affected by the emergence and influence of Diasporic practices. Musics that have been transformed are examined as they transform again while returning to Africa. Perceptions of African, Diasporic, and new musical practices are considered in the postcolonial age; in some areas cultural traditions exert the dominant force, while in other areas musics reflect a negotiation between tradition and modernity. Well-known composers of classical/art music are featured for the ways in which they combined European and African elements and idioms in the works. Important practitioners of kwela and isicathamiya are included, and these genres are considered as part of a larger, Diasporic trajectory.Less
This chapter aims to explore the trans-Atlantic movement of music from the Americas back to Africa, beginning in the early nineteenth century. In so doing, the chapter debunks the notion that the movement of African musics was not affected by the emergence and influence of Diasporic practices. Musics that have been transformed are examined as they transform again while returning to Africa. Perceptions of African, Diasporic, and new musical practices are considered in the postcolonial age; in some areas cultural traditions exert the dominant force, while in other areas musics reflect a negotiation between tradition and modernity. Well-known composers of classical/art music are featured for the ways in which they combined European and African elements and idioms in the works. Important practitioners of kwela and isicathamiya are included, and these genres are considered as part of a larger, Diasporic trajectory.
