The Lion of Soweto
Author | : Mahlathini |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Popular music |
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Author | : Mahlathini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Popular music |
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Author | : Lookman Laneon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Domestic fiction |
ISBN | : 9780620758215 |
Sheline, a beautiful newly married lady, leaves for Johannesburg where she hopes to pick a degree in Journalism. Bandele, a wealthy Soweto bully set his eyes on her to be the next romantic target. During a break, she returns home to Bulawayo where she is laced with a sexual locking formula by her self-doubting husband, Moyo. He says it's to prevent his wife from being stolen away from him. Bandele will not look away, he asks his aids to swoop on her, even if they have to use softer, more gentlemanly approach, quite against their usual brash and predatory methods. he proves difficult for him, despite his fame and power. He turns a new leaf and becomes a regular church-goer, hoping to entice the lady. But he doesn't know that he is treading in the shadow of death. Will Bandele fall for the trap set hundreds of kilometres away? -- Publisher's description.
Author | : Louise Meintjes |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2003-02-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0822384639 |
Boosting the bass guitar, blending the vocals, overdubbing percussion while fretting over shoot-outs in the street. Grumbling about a producer, teasing a white engineer, challenging an artist to feel his African beat. Sound of Africa! is a riveting account of the production of a mbaqanga album in a state-of-the-art recording studio in Johannesburg. Made popular internationally by Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens, mbaqanga's distinctive style features a bass solo voice and soaring harmonies of a female frontline over electric guitar, bass, keyboard, and drumset. Louise Meintjes chronicles the recording and mixing of an album by Izintombi Zesimanje, historically the rival group of the Mahotella Queens. Set in the early 1990s during South Africa’s tumultuous transition from apartheid to democratic rule, Sound of Africa! offers a rare portrait of the music recording process. It tracks the nuanced interplay among South African state controls, the music industry's transnational drive, and the mbaqanga artists' struggles for political, professional, and personal voice. Focusing on the ways artists, producers, and sound engineers collaborate in the studio control room, Meintjes reveals not only how particular mbaqanga sounds are shaped technically, but also how egos and artistic sensibilities and race and ethnicity influence the mix. She analyzes how the turbulent identity politics surrounding Zulu ethnic nationalism impacted mbaqanga artists' decisions in and out of the studio. Conversely, she explores how the global consumption of Afropop and African images fed back into mbaqanga during the recording process. Meintjes is especially attentive to the ways the emotive qualities of timbre (sound quality or tone color) forge complex connections between aesthetic practices and political ideology. Vivid photos by the internationally renowned photographer TJ Lemon further dramatize Meintjes’ ethnography.
Author | : Zameer Dada |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2019-11-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1728395763 |
The Lion of Soweto And The Spelling Bee tells the story of Joseph, a young boy from a township who rises above his humble surroundings and overcomes challenges to eventually achieve success – winning The National Spelling Bee.
Author | : Robert Christgau |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674443181 |
Two generations of American music lovers have grown up listening with Robert Christgau, attuned to his inimitable blend of judgment, acuity, passion, erudition, wit, and caveat emptor. His writings, collected here, constitute a virtual encyclopedia of popular music over the past fifty years. Whether honoring the originators of rock and roll, celebrating established artists, or spreading the word about newer ones, the book is pure enjoyment, a pleasure that takes its cues from the sounds it chronicles. A critical compendium of points of interest in American popular music and its far-flung diaspora, this book ranges from the 1950s singer-songwriter tradition through hip-hop, alternative, and beyond. With unfailing style and grace, Christgau negotiates the straits of great music and thorny politics, as in the cases of Public Enemy, blackface artist Emmett Miller, KRS-One, the Beastie Boys, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. He illuminates legends from pop music and the beginnings of rock and roll—George Gershwin, Nat King Cole, B. B. King, Chuck Berry, and Elvis Presley—and looks at the subtle transition to just plain “rock” in the music of Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and others. He praises the endless vitality of Al Green, George Clinton, and Neil Young. And from the Rolling Stones to Sonic Youth to Nirvana, from Bette Midler to Michael Jackson to DJ Shadow, he shows how money calls the tune in careers that aren’t necessarily compromised by their intercourse with commerce. Rock and punk and hip-hop, pop and world beat: this is the music of the second half of the twentieth century, skillfully framed in the work of a writer whose reach, insight, and perfect pitch make him one of the major cultural critics of our time.
Author | : Roger de la Harpe |
Publisher | : Jonathan Ball Publishers |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1920289682 |
The African lion (Panthera leo), long celebrated as the king of beasts, faces unprecedented challenges in the wild today. Loss of habitat through the expansion of human activity increasingly restricts the lion to game reserves and national parks, while diseases such as bovine tuberculosis pose a threat to the health of lion prides. Over a period of two years, Roger and Pat de la Harpe have documented wild lions of South Africa, and the result is a superbly photographed and engagingly written tribute to this often misunderstood predator. In Search of the African Lion enters the complex world of the lion, describing pride dynamics, hunting patterns, the reproductive cycle and interactions with human communities. The book focuses on four main areas: the Kalahari, the Madikwe/Mapungubwe area, the Greater Kruger National Park and Northern Zululand -each with its own problems, challenges and opportunities. In addition, the authors highlight the important work done by game rangers, wildlife managers and scientific researchers in understanding the lion and in protecting existing populations. The In Search of... series focuses on the plight of threatened and endangered species. Also available by the same authors: In Search of the African Wild Dog.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Blacks |
ISBN | : |
A journal of Black musical traditions.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 806 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Blacks |
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Author | : Linda Tucker |
Publisher | : Hay House, Inc |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1401928560 |
The inspiring firsthand account of one woman’s journey into African shamanism and the mysteries of the most sacred animal on the continent: the legendary White Lion In 1991, Linda Tucker was rescued from a pride of lions in the Timbavati game region by a medicine woman known as the “Lion Queen.” So began Linda’s lifelong journey into the wisdom and ceremonies of Old Africa, in which humans and lions are able to cross the species barrier. Such knowledge is in accordance with the most guarded secrets of Ancient Egypt and humankind’s greatest riddle, the Sphinx. Scientists in our day have established that humankind’s most significant evolutionary leap occurred as a result of our ancestors’ interaction with great cats. The White Lion is a genetic rarity within Panthera leo, and occurred in just one region on Earth: Timbavati. Today, White Lions form the center of the notorious “canned” trophy-hunting industry—hand-reared captive lions, shot in enclosures for gross sums of money. By contrast, shamans believe that killing a “lion sun god” is the ultimate sacrilege. How the human species treats such precious symbols of God in nature may determine how nature treats the human species. Whether we view them as prophetic “Lions of God” or simply as rare genetic mutations, the story of the White Lions is a true legend unfolding in our own extraordinary times. Inspiring, captivating, and thoroughly researched, Mystery of the White Lions is an unforgettable portrait of these magnificent beasts and of the overwhelming love that has driven Linda's every action to save them. “Through understanding the White Lion we will understand ourselves and our great role in the chain of being.” —Deepak Chopra
Author | : Veit Erlmann |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2022-10-28 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1478023597 |
In the aftermath of apartheid, South Africa undertook an ambitious revision of its intellectual property system. In Lion’s Share Veit Erlmann traces the role of copyright law in this process and its impact on the South African music industry. Although the South African government tied the reform to its postapartheid agenda of redistributive justice and a turn to a postindustrial knowledge economy, Erlmann shows how the persistence of structural racism and Euro-modernist conceptions of copyright threaten the viability of the reform project. In case studies ranging from antipiracy police raids and the crafting of legislation to protect indigenous expressive practices to the landmark lawsuit against Disney for its appropriation of Solomon Linda’s song "Mbube" for its hit “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” from The Lion King, Erlmann follows the intricacies of musical copyright through the criminal justice system, parliamentary committees, and the offices of a music licensing and royalty organization. Throughout, he demonstrates how copyright law is inextricably entwined with race, popular music, postcolonial governance, indigenous rights, and the struggle to create a more equitable society.