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Opposing Apartheid on Stage

King Kong the Musical

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Produktbeschreibung

A captivating account of an interracial jazz opera that took apartheid South Africa by storm and marked a turning point in the nation's cultural history.

Produktdetails

• Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781648250798
• ISBN-10: 1648250793
• Artikelnr.: 68283140

Autorenporträt

TYLER FLEMING is Associate Professor in the Departments of History & Pan-African Studies at the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY. He received his PhD in African History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction "Marvelous Muscles": A History of Ezekiel Dlamini, the Real
"King Kong" Creating a "Back of the Moon": The Union of Southern African
Artists and Interracial Collaboration Behind the "All-African" Musical
"Quickly in Love": Popular Receptions of 1959 King Kong and Entertaining
the Possibilities of a Different South Africa(s) "Kwela Kong": The Trials
and Tribulations of a South African Musical Abroad in 1961 "Sad Times, Bad
Times": Issues of Exile, the King Kong Cast, and South African Jazz in
Britain, 1961-1980 "The Boy's [and Girl's] Doin' It":Moving to America and
Re-Discovering Africa, 1960-1989 "Death Song": The 1979 Remake of King Kong
And the Power of Cultural Memories Under Apartheid Bibliography