Disempowering Music
The Amandla! Documentary and Other Conservative Musical Projects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12786332 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lindelwa Dalamba (0000-0003-3601-6955, Damelin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 295-315 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Safundi (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1543-1304 • E-ISSN: 1753-3171 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17533171.2012.715417 |
| OpenAlex | W2036179487 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
Scholars of black South African popular music have established important connections between music and society. Lara Allen’s studies of pennywhistle-kwela, Christopher Ballantine’s research on marabi and African jazz/mbaqanga,and David Coplan’s social history of black city music, among others, have underwritten the new literature in South African musicology and cultural studies. Previous neglect of black popular culture has made oral testimony crucial to the writing of these musical pasts. Recent investigations in the field, which are preoccupied with the articulation of black struggle to music, and the expression of struggle through music, have adopted a more popular format. Within these, the autobiographies of Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela are integral, as is Lee Hirsch’s documentary film, Amandla!. The popularity of these studies and their subjects, and their foregrounded debt to oral testimony and veneration of ‘the Struggle’ has tended to foreclose scrutiny of their representational politics. This article questions whether their homological substitution of music and musicians for anti-apartheid struggles in a postapartheid South Africa enables the radical stories they would tell of that past
Aesthetics · Art · Black music · Call and response · Jazz · Literature · Movement (music · Music history · Musical · Political science · Politics · Popular music · Visual arts · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · South African History and Culture
In township tonight!
Reading and recognition in three South African women's autobiographies
Negotiating the Past
South Africa's Racial past
Pass Controls and the Urban African Proletariat in South Africa
Culture and Imperialism
Gender, Migrancy, and South African Popular Music in the Late 1940s and the 1950s
Commerce, Politics, and Musical Hybridity
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2018 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |