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Black South African jazz: ca. 1945 - ca. 1964

This is the main text for this section. Click here to see the bibliography for MGS102Read and prepare for discussion: ITT, Chapter 6 "Sophiatown - culture and community, 1940-60";
ITT, Chapter 7 "Township music and musicians".
Additional readingRead T. Cameron & S.B. Spies, A New Illustrated History of South Africa, second revised edition (Johannesburg: Southern Book Publishers and Human & Rousseau, 1992).

Historical introduction

Blacks in the city (the 1940s)
Finding a place to stay
Callinicos, L. 1993. A Place in the City: The Rand on the Eve of Apartheid. A People's History of South Africa, vol. 3. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. PC, p. 32-36.
Black resistance
The ANC in the 1940s: the ANC Youth League (1944)
Callinicos, L. 1993. A Place in the City: The Rand on the Eve of Apartheid. A People's History of South Africa, vol. 3. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. PC, p. 58-61.
Additional reading Read Jürgen Schadeberg's Nelson Mandela and the Rise of the ANC (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball & Ad. Donker, 1990).
The Indian Congresses (1946)
Callinicos, L. 1993. A Place in the City: The Rand on the Eve of Apartheid. A People's History of South Africa, vol. 3. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. PC, p. 52-57.
The South African Communist Party
Callinicos, L. 1993. A Place in the City: The Rand on the Eve of Apartheid. A People's History of South Africa, vol. 3. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. PC, p. 62-69.

The rise of Afrikaner nationalism
The 1940s
Callinicos, L. 1993. A Place in the City: The Rand on the Eve of Apartheid. A People's History of South Africa, vol. 3. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. PC, p. 111-130.

Sophiatown

Photographs and supporting textSee Jürgen Schadeberg's, Sof'town Blues: Images from the Black '50s (Johannesburg: Jürgen Schadeberg, 1994).

A sense of community
The beginning (1897);
Coplan, D. 1985. In Township Tonight! South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. ITT, p. 143.
the Urban Areas Act and freehold locations;
Coplan, D. 1985. In Township Tonight! South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. ITT, p. 144.
a sense of permanence, self-direction and community.
Coplan, D. 1985. In Township Tonight! South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. ITT, p. 144.
A new synthesis of African culture
Sophiatown sets the pace.
Coplan, D. 1985. In Township Tonight! South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. ITT, p. 144.
Shebeen society and the black middle class.
Coplan, D. 1985. In Township Tonight! South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. ITT, p. 145.
The American influence:
  • American jazz in the shebeens;
  • professional musicians;
  • recordings;
  • magazines;
  • film.
Coplan, D. 1985. In Township Tonight! South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. ITT, p. 145-146.
The working class in Sophiatown
Coplan, D. 1985. In Township Tonight! South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. ITT, p. 152-153.

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