COMPOSING APARTHEID

The first book to look at the role of music during the apartheid Composing Apartheid is the first book ever to chart the musical world of a notorious period in world history apartheid South Africa It explores how music was produced through and was productive of key features of apartheids social and political topography as well as how music and musicians contested and even helped to conquer apartheid The collection of essays is intentionally broad and the contributors include historians sociologists and anthropologists as well as ethnomusicologists music theorists and historical musicologists The essays focus on a variety of music jazz music in the Western art tradition popular music and on major composers such as Kevin Volans and works Handels Messiah Musical institutions and previously littleresearched performers such as the African National Congresss troupeinexile Amandla are explored The writers move well beyond their subject matter intervening in debates on race historiography and postcolonial epistemologies and pedagogies