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Concert and Dance: the foundations of black jazz in South Africa between the twenties and the early forties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

Christopher Ballantine
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The explosive development of a jazz-band tradition in South African cities from the 1920s – closely allied to the equally rapid maturation of a vaudeville tradition which has been in existence at least since the First World War – is one of the most astonishing features of urban-black culture in that country in the first half of the century. Surrounded by myriad other musics – styles forged by migrant workers; traditional styles transplanted from the countryside to the mines; petty bourgeois choral song; music of the church and of western-classical provenance – jazz and vaudeville quickly established themselves as the music which represented and articulated the hopes and aspirations of the most deeply urbanised sectors of the African working class.

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Research Article
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Popular Music , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , May 1991 , pp. 121 - 145
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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