The life story of the outstanding jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin sheds light on South African jazz history, women in jazz, and American music as a transnational art form.
The life story of the outstanding jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin sheds light on South African jazz history, women in jazz, and American music as a transnational art form.
Carol Ann Muller is Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Focus: Music of South Africa and South African Music: A Century of Traditions in Transformation. The South African jazz vocalist and composer Sathima Bea Benjamin is the founder of Ekapa Records and a Grammy-nominated musician who has released a dozen recordings, including Dedications, Cape Town Love, and Musical Echoes . In 2004, South Africa’s president, Thabo Mbeki, honored her with the Order of Ikhamanga Silver Award in recognition of her musical artistry and antiapartheid activism. Benjamin lives in New York City.
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List of Figures ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxiii A Tribute by Abdullah Ibrahim: "Sathima" xxxi Sathima: My Life's Journey as a Jazz Singer xxxiii 1. Beginnings 1 2. A Home Within 11 Call: Recollecting a Musical Past 11 Response: Entanglement in Race and Music 33 3. Cape Jazz 53 Call: Popular Music, Dance Bands, and Jazz 53 Response: Imagining Musical Lineage through Duke and Billie 95 4. Jazz Migrancy 128 Call: Musicians Abroad 128 Response: A New African Diaspora 167 5. A New York Embrace 189 Call: Coming to the City 189 Response: Women Thinking in Jazz, or the Poetics of a Musical Self 217 6. Returning Home? 242 Call: Cape Town Love / An Archeology of Popular Song 242 Response: Jazz History as Living History 260 7. Musical Echoes 271 Call: Sathima's Musical Echo 271 Response: Reflections on Echo 274 8. Outcomes-Jazz in the World 283 Notes 297 Selected References 325 Index 337
List of Figures ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxiii A Tribute by Abdullah Ibrahim: "Sathima" xxxi Sathima: My Life's Journey as a Jazz Singer xxxiii 1. Beginnings 1 2. A Home Within 11 Call: Recollecting a Musical Past 11 Response: Entanglement in Race and Music 33 3. Cape Jazz 53 Call: Popular Music, Dance Bands, and Jazz 53 Response: Imagining Musical Lineage through Duke and Billie 95 4. Jazz Migrancy 128 Call: Musicians Abroad 128 Response: A New African Diaspora 167 5. A New York Embrace 189 Call: Coming to the City 189 Response: Women Thinking in Jazz, or the Poetics of a Musical Self 217 6. Returning Home? 242 Call: Cape Town Love / An Archeology of Popular Song 242 Response: Jazz History as Living History 260 7. Musical Echoes 271 Call: Sathima's Musical Echo 271 Response: Reflections on Echo 274 8. Outcomes-Jazz in the World 283 Notes 297 Selected References 325 Index 337
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