Sound of Africa! : Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio /

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Boosting the bass guitar, blending the vocals, overdubbing percussion while fretting over shoot-outs in the street. Grumbling about a producer, teasing a white engineer, challenging an artist to feel his African beat. Sound of Africa! is a riveting account of the production of a mbaqanga album in a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meintjes, Louise, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Etnomusicologie.
Populaire muziek.
Geluidsopnamen.
Musik
Sound recording industry.
Popular music > Social aspects.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Pop Vocal.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > New Age.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > International.
Chansons folkloriques zouloues.
Mbaqanga (Musique)
Disques > Industrie > Afrique du Sud.
Musique populaire > Aspect social > Afrique du Sud.
Folk songs, Zulu.
Mbaqanga (Music)
Sound recording industry > South Africa.
Popular music > Social aspects > South Africa.
Südafrika <Staat>
Zulu.
South Africa.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Demo tape: about Sound of Africa!
  • Cut one: mbaqanga
  • Cut two: the recording studio as fetish
  • Cut three: producing liveness
  • Cut four: sounding figures
  • Cut five: performing zuluness
  • Cut six: imagining overseas
  • A final mix: mediating difference.

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