Muller / Benjamin Musical Echoes

South African Women Thinking in Jazz
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9364-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

Reihe: Refiguring American music

The life story of the outstanding jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin sheds light on South African jazz history, women in jazz, and American music as a transnational art form.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muller, Carol Ann

Benjamin, Sathima Bea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Carol Ann Muller is Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Focus: Music of South Africa and South African Music: A Century of Traditions in Transformation.The South African jazz vocalist and composer Sathima Bea Benjamin is the founder of Ekapa Records and a Grammy-nominated musician who has released a dozen recordings, including Dedications, Cape Town Love, and Musical Echoes. In 2004, South Africa’s president, Thabo Mbeki, honored her with the Order of Ikhamanga Silver Award in recognition of her musical artistry and antiapartheid activism. Benjamin lives in New York City.