Jazz in service of the struggle: the New Brighton story
- Authors: Thram, Diane J
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/481842 , vital:78590 , https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v10i4.2234
- Description: This article contributes to the substantial body of publications on South African jazz with information on jazz performance and performers in New Brighton, a township adjacent to Port Elizabeth noted for its vibrant jazz scene and outstanding jazz musicians. The article covers several decades from the heyday of swing bands in the 1940s—50s through the 1960s—70s when New Brighton's premier jazz combo, the Soul Jazzmen, were at the height of their artistry. The role of swing bands in New Brighton and surrounding communities as the training ground for members of the Soul Jazzmen and other local musicians of note is discussed, as well as how the Soul Jazzmen in turn were tutors for musicians of the next generation who became widely recognized artists, composers and arrangers. This is followed by a focus on the Soul Jazzmen and compositions by its members that protested against the apartheid regime in the 1960s—70s. The article is informed by historic photographs, newspaper clippings and information from oral history interviews that richly document how jazz was performed in service of the anti-apartheid struggle in New Brighton.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Thram, Diane J
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/481842 , vital:78590 , https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v10i4.2234
- Description: This article contributes to the substantial body of publications on South African jazz with information on jazz performance and performers in New Brighton, a township adjacent to Port Elizabeth noted for its vibrant jazz scene and outstanding jazz musicians. The article covers several decades from the heyday of swing bands in the 1940s—50s through the 1960s—70s when New Brighton's premier jazz combo, the Soul Jazzmen, were at the height of their artistry. The role of swing bands in New Brighton and surrounding communities as the training ground for members of the Soul Jazzmen and other local musicians of note is discussed, as well as how the Soul Jazzmen in turn were tutors for musicians of the next generation who became widely recognized artists, composers and arrangers. This is followed by a focus on the Soul Jazzmen and compositions by its members that protested against the apartheid regime in the 1960s—70s. The article is informed by historic photographs, newspaper clippings and information from oral history interviews that richly document how jazz was performed in service of the anti-apartheid struggle in New Brighton.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2018
Listen and learn: Music made easy
- McConnachie, Boudina E, Thram, Diane J
- Authors: McConnachie, Boudina E , Thram, Diane J
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480699 , vital:78468 , ISBN 978-0-620-53702-5
- Description: Every now and again a little indigenous gem rises unpretentiously above the South African socio-political-educational landscape and fills me with patriotic pride. Listen and Learn – Music made Easy is one of those down-to-earth examples of what we aspire to in our nationalist rhetoric but seldom understand or achieve. In one deceptively simple little book, Bo McConnachie and collaborators have revealed a hidden path to the heart of so much that occupies our country’s attention – African pride, education, identity, culture, diversity, passion.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2012
- Authors: McConnachie, Boudina E , Thram, Diane J
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480699 , vital:78468 , ISBN 978-0-620-53702-5
- Description: Every now and again a little indigenous gem rises unpretentiously above the South African socio-political-educational landscape and fills me with patriotic pride. Listen and Learn – Music made Easy is one of those down-to-earth examples of what we aspire to in our nationalist rhetoric but seldom understand or achieve. In one deceptively simple little book, Bo McConnachie and collaborators have revealed a hidden path to the heart of so much that occupies our country’s attention – African pride, education, identity, culture, diversity, passion.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2012
- «
- ‹
- 1
- ›
- »