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    Music and Social Change in South Africa
    Maskanda Past and Present

    Kathryn Olsen (Author)

    9781439911365

    Hardback, published 3 October 2014

    222 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.666 kg

    Music and Social Change in South Africa looks at contemporary maskanda-a folk musical genre distinguished by fast guitar picking and blues-style vocal intonation-against the backdrop of South Africa's history. A performance practice that emerged in the early decades of the twentieth century among Zulu migrant workers, maskanda is strongly associated with young Zulu men's experiences of repression and dislocation during imperial and, more particularly, apartheid rule.
     
    Working closely with translated song lyrics and musical notation-and applying musical and socio-political analysis to this music and its cultural context-Olsen argues that maskanda offers insight into how the post-apartheid ideal of social transformation is experienced by those who were marginalized for most of the twentieth century. 
     
    Drawing on a decade of research, Olsen strives to demystify the Zulu part of contemporary experience in South Africa and to reveal some of the complexities of the social, economic, and political landscape of contemporary South Africa.

    Contents

     

    Acknowledgments

     

    Prologue

     

    1 Maskanda Researched: The Parallax View

    2 Maskanda's Early Years 

    3 Maskanda as Commodified Tradition 

    4 Men Making Maskanda in Post-apartheid South Africa 

    5 Women Playing Maskanda 

    6 Experiencing Transformation

     

    Notes

     

    References

     

    Index
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