MGS102 Weeks 1, 2 and 3: Part 3

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Marabi as dance and social occasion
The famo dance: urban Sotho dancing;
Coplan, D. 1985. In Township Tonight! South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. ITT, p. 98.
Concert and Dance: as middle class, as working-class and as ndunduma concert and dance;
Coplan, D. 1985. In Township Tonight! South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. ITT, p. 105-106, 154-155.
Audio Data Track 2 (Griffiths Motsieloa and Company, "Sponono naMarabi", London, 1931) from the Marabi Nights cassette recording accompanying MN. [I,7]
Audio Data Track 3 (Motsieloa's Pitch Black Follies, "Tsaba Tsaba ke No. 1", Johannesburg, 1939) from the Marabi Nights cassette recording accompanying MN. [I,8]
Audio Data Track 10 (Snowy Radebe and Company, "eBhayi", Johannesburg, ca. 1945) from the Marabi Nights cassette recording accompanying MN. [I,9]
Audio Data Track 5 (Bantu Glee Singers, "Ndunduma", Johannesburg, 1939) from the Marabi Nights cassette recording accompanying MN. [I,10]
Audio Data Track 3 (Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds, "Mbube", 1939) from Marabi to Disco, African Classics, Gallo CDZAC61. [I,11]
marabi dances (parties) in the yards of Doornfontein.
Coplan, D. 1985. In Township Tonight! South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. ITT, p. 108.
Audio Data Track 18 (Hot Lips Dance Band with Thomas Mabiletsa? on piano, "Marabi No. 2 Jive", Johannesburg, ca. 1945) from the Marabi Nights cassette recording accompanying MN. [I,12]
Marabi as a signifier for a class of people
Black middle-class perceptions of and reactions to marabi (elitist responses to working-class culture).
Coplan, D. 1985. In Township Tonight! South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. ITT, p. 108-109.
Ballantine, C. 1993. Marabi Nights: Early South African Jazz and Vaudeville. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. MN, p. 74-84 [the section on "Internal repression: Class and Gender"].

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