""This is one of the best books to have emerged from South
African musicology in the last decadeIt opens up a new level of
discourse about music during the apartheid era: a level on which
the theoretical, the ethical, the historical and the aesthetic play
against each other in newly meaningful ways.""
--Roger Parker, Cambridge University (UK)
""Composing Apartheid endeavors to trace the relationships
between names, concepts and realities as they variously interacted,
and continue to interact, on the musical landscape, and it does so
as historically and socially responsible scholarship.""
--Grant Olwage, from the Introduction
"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 apartheid's social and political
topography. 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), major composers (such as
Kevin Volans) and works (Handel's "Messiah"). Musical institutions
and previously little-researched performers (such as the African
National Congress's troupe-in-exile Amandla) are explored. The
writers move well beyond their subject matter, intervening in
debates on race, historiography, and postcolonial epistemologies
and pedagogies.
This book includes contributions by Lara Allen, University of
the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Gary Baines, Rhodes University
(South Africa); Ingrid Byerly, Duke University; Christopher
Cockburn, University of KwaZulu-Natal; David Coplan, University of
the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa); Michael Drewett,
Rhodes University; Shirli Gilbert, University of Southampton;
Bennetta Jules-Rosette, University of California, San Diego;
Christine Lucia, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg;
Carol A. Muller, University of Pennsylvania; Stephanus Muller,
University of Stellenbosch (South Africa); Brett Pyper, New York
University; and Martin Scherzinger, Princeton University.
"Grant Olwage" is a senior lecturer at the School of Arts at the
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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