The Songs of Soweto
Author | : Ken Sibanda |
Publisher | : Africa Research and Publications |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ken Sibanda |
Publisher | : Africa Research and Publications |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thandeka Gqubule |
Publisher | : Jonathan Ball Publishers |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2017-05-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1868427323 |
Thuli Madonsela achieved in seven years as Public Protector what few accomplish in a lifetime; her legacy and contribution cannot be overstated. In her final days in office she compiled the explosive State of Capture report and, two years before that, Secure in Comfort, the report on President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla residence. Praised and vilified in equal measure, Madonsela frequently found herself on centre stage in the increasingly fractious South African political scene. Yet, despite the intense media scrutiny, Madonsela remains something of an enigma. Who is this soft-spoken woman who stood up to state corruption? Where did she develop her views and resolve? In No Longer Whispering to Power Thandeka Gqubule, journalist and one of the 'SABC 8' fired and rehired by the broadcaster, attempts to answer these questions, and others, by exploring aspects of Madonsela's life: her childhood years and family, her involvement in student politics, her time in prison, her contribution to the Constitution, and her life in law.
Author | : Mbongeni Ngema |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Musicals |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Pooley |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2024-07-11 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932-2021), an iconic figure in choral music in South Africa, rose to prominence as one of Africa's leading composers of art music. This is a work of music history. Biographical essays on Khumalo's major works, including those for choir, orchestra, and opera are complemented by contextual studies of his compositions and arrangements as well as reflections on his roles as editor, conductor, and music director. Specifically in the context of South Africa's cultural and political transition from Apartheid to democracy, Khumalo's key role in establishing the Nation Building Massed Choir Festival, a multi-racial institution that forged an inclusive space for music, in the 1980s is discussed as evidence of his importance and relevance in South African culture. Khumalo's major works are studied in relation to contemporary art music, choral composition, and traditional song. These are UShaka KaSenzangakhona (1996), an African epic, and Princess Magogo KaDinuzulu (2002), one of the first indigenous African operas. Khumalo's artistic collaborators provide insight into their experiences working on these major projects, documenting the relationships the composer cultivated with his peers. This volume addresses a lacuna in the literature on South African art music which until recently tended to focus on works in the classical tradition and shows that Khumalo is a composer without peer in his synthesis of classical and choral, traditional and contemporary.
Author | : United States. Joint Publications Research Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1112 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Benj DeMott |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1351519735 |
This is the second volume in the First of the Year Series. Contributors like Armond White, Philip Levine, Donna Gaines, Lawrence Goodwyn, Irving Louis Horowitz, Charles O'Brien, Fredric Smoler, Paul Berman, and Amiri Baraka are back (and blazing). And there are important new voices in the First mix, such as Vincent Harding, Roxane Johnson, and Bob Levin. If there is a leitmotif to this edition, it is the election and inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African-American president. First aims to be up to the minute of this moment.As Benj DeMott notes "a glance at this volume confirms the margin is still the center for us." And that margin stretches from Harlem to the world. There are tales of edgy sojourns in Afghanistan, Thailand, and South Africa. The volume also has a Question & Answer with Ousmane Sembi, who taught Africans to resist "elements of received culture-those fixed rules and values which nobody but those on the margins dare to question." A second interview with Adam Hochschild celebrates the Englishman who invented abolition, and an African-American original who coined the phrase "crimes against humanity."The volume includes a protest against the Israeli war machine by Uri Avnery who has long been a creative outsider in his own society. It makes the case that American ideologues (on both extremes) keep getting the Middle East wrong because they cannot grasp the complexities of any country, including their own. First of the Year's minority angles of vision will help readers see with new eyes. It will help their hearing too. The volume has plenty of music writing marked by loving attention to details of pop performances. In short, this collection reflects its editor; direct, unafraid, urban, and entirely contemporary.
Author | : Nicholas Mhlongo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Short stories, South African (English) |
ISBN | : 9780795708374 |
Imbued with a sense of place, this short story collection captures the vibrancy of Soweto and surrounds. Told with satirical flair, life and death intertwine in these tales where funerals and the ancestors feature strongly. Take a seat under the apricot tree and let a born storyteller enthral you with tales both entertaining and thought-provoking. -- Publisher's description.
Author | : Carol Ann Muller |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Isicathamiya |
ISBN | : 041596069X |
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1458726428 |
Author | : Tom Moon |
Publisher | : Workman Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1026 |
Release | : 2008-08-28 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 076113963X |
A guide to music provides recommendations on one thousand recordings that represent the best in such genres as classical, jazz, rock, pop, blues, country, folk, musicals, hip-hop, and opera, with listening notes, commentary, and anecdotes about performers.