Musical echoes : South African women thinking in jazz
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Musical echoes : South African women thinking in jazz
（Refiguring American music）
Duke University Press, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-336) and index
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Description
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 Billie Holiday. In 1962 she and Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) left South Africa together for Europe, where they met and recorded with Duke Ellington. Benjamin and Ibrahim spent their lives on the move between Europe, the United States, and South Africa until 1977, when they left Africa for New York City and declared their support for the African National Congress. In New York, Benjamin established her own record company and recorded her music independently from Ibrahim. Musical Echoes reflects twenty years of archival research and conversation between this extraordinary jazz singer and the South African musicologist Carol Ann Muller. The narrative of Benjamin's life and times is interspersed with Muller's reflections on the vocalist's story and its implications for jazz history.
Table of Contents
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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