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Musical echoes [electronic resource] : South African women thinking in jazz / Carol Ann Muller & Sathima Bea Benjamin.

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Musical Echoes tells the life story of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Born in Cape Town in the 1930s, Benjamin came to know American jazz and popular music through the radio, movies, records, and live stage and dance band performances. She was especially moved by the voice of...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Main Author: Muller, Carol Ann
Other Authors: Benjamin, Sathima Bea
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Series:Refiguring American music.
Subjects:
Benjamin, Sathima Bea
Jazz singers > South Africa > Biography.
Women jazz musicians > South Africa.
Jazz > South Africa.
Jazz.
Jazz singers.
Women jazz musicians.
South Africa.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • A tribute by Abdullah Ibrahim: "Sathima"
  • Sathima : my life's journey as a jazz singer
  • Beginnings
  • A home within
  • Call: recollecting a musical past
  • Response: entanglement in race and music
  • Cape jazz
  • Call: popular music, dance bands, and jazz
  • Response: imagining musical lineage through Duke and Billie
  • Jazz migrancy
  • Call: musicians abroad
  • Response: a new African diaspora
  • A new york embrace
  • Call: coming to the city
  • Response: women thinking in jazz, or the poetics of a musical self
  • Returning home?
  • Call: Cape Town love/an archeology of popular song
  • Response: jazz history as living history
  • Musical echoes
  • Call: Sathima's musical echo
  • Response: reflections on echo
  • Outcomes : jazz in the world.

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