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WEEK FOUR
MUSC 230 (9101)
Tu-We-Th 6:00-9:10 p.m. / FA  011
Winter 2000
Dr. Dane Kusic
Department of Music
University of Maryland
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
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Week 4/1

    South Africa: Popular Music

    Historical Introduction

    • From Colonialism to Apartheid to "Freedom"

    Orpheus McAdoo and Virginia Jubilee Singers:

    • American Story: Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee
    • South African Tour of 1890-1898
      • Minstrels: "White Fantasies about Blacks" and "Acting the Nigger"
      • Jubilee Hymns: Religiosity as a weapon of Resistance
      CD
      • Eartha Kitt, "Steal Away to Jesus"

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    • AME: African Methodist Episcopal Church, U.S.
    • Late 18th Century Mining Boom in South Africa

    Migrant Workers and Townships: Zulus and Ingoma Dance

    • Veit Earlmann, African Stars
    • Townships and Hostels: Soweto
    • Zulu: Ingoma Dance

    Isicathamiya Choirs

    • 1980s: Western Economic and Cultural Boycott
    • 1994: Nelson Mandela Becomes the First Black President of South African Republic
      Video
      • Rhythm of Resistance: South African Popular Music


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Week 4/2
 

    Joseph Shabalala and Ladysmith Black Mambazo

    • Music and Resistance
      Video
      • Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit
    • Isicathamiya Choirs
    • Joseph Shabalala and Paul Simon
    • "Saturday Night Live"

    Paul Simon's album Graceland

    • Post-modernism: "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes"
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Week 4/3: January 27

Endterm Test

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University of Maryland Baltimore County, MD 21250
                                                                                Last updated: January 20, 2000