Thank you for the video, I'm loving the Makeba. I'm South African, have a massive interest in music and starting with Anthropology next year... witch of course led me hear. Please continue making these and if you wouldn't mind, could you share some of your sources so that I can do my own reading up.
Thanls for the feedback. Some major works on South African music include David Coplan - In Township Tonight, Christopher Ballantine - Marabi Nights, and Veit Erlmann - Music, Modernity, and Globalisation. I hope that helps.
Marabi was founded during the 1920's, after the Gold rush where Johannesburg fast being urbanised, where black location s such as albertini, Kliptown,Fidus, Die rooie Kamp ,Tsakane,Dikathole in the East rand and Alexandra😢 township etc. were mushrooming as labour pool. In this regard,many black people were given opportunities as they managed to buy properties and open ed businesses. The type of education,which was known as Royal readers was more of eye opening hence most community leaders were educated,to an extent that some who loved music obtained degrees in music. Marabi,came into being after one of the black academic figures,by the name of Benedict BAMBATHA' ka Vilakazi who advocated that black people should write their own books and compose their indigenous music. Meanwhile,the Americans also graduated from playing Dixieland jazz to Bozanova jazz and later to Hard Be-bop. On our side,our musicians came up with inimitable African sound known as MARABI.
Excellent! More! I have all the references you list below in another reply in my library. I've put together a slide show on a similar subject, more social history, less musical history. But I integrate it with a live performance of representative choral songs. If only I had a band to add the instrumental sounds as well. Really great presentation in 7 minutes. Inspiring!
It made me very happy to stumble across this video, and then sad that there aren't more parts in this playlist. :-) Do you have some recommendations on where/how to find out more? I guess simply reading Wikipedia is as reasonable a start as any... Thanks!
To answer my own question with an answer Ethnomusicology Explained! gave earlier on 909Daan's comment: _"Some major works on South African music include David Coplan - In Township Tonight, Christopher Ballantine - Marabi Nights, and Veit Erlmann - Music, Modernity, and Globalisation. I hope that helps."_ Thanks! That helps! :)
It would be nice to know what this music actually sounded like. You talk about the cultural conditions that gave birth to it it, and I'm grateful for that, but what I'd really like to know is what it sounded like, even a modern approximation.
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I'm writing an essay on African music for my music class. Thank you for the information! I do like the background song. It's very catchy.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
That was simp,y brilliant! Amazingly accurate researched and so captivating I even watched twice because of how good it was
Beautiful audio
This is brilliant! Thank you!
+Sally Jaquet I appreciate it Sally :)
Thank you for the video, I'm loving the Makeba. I'm South African, have a massive interest in music and starting with Anthropology next year... witch of course led me hear. Please continue making these and if you wouldn't mind, could you share some of your sources so that I can do my own reading up.
Thanls for the feedback. Some major works on South African music include David Coplan - In Township Tonight, Christopher Ballantine - Marabi Nights, and Veit Erlmann - Music, Modernity, and Globalisation. I hope that helps.
Thank you for this memories
I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
Marabi was founded during the 1920's, after the Gold rush where Johannesburg fast being urbanised, where black location s such as albertini, Kliptown,Fidus, Die rooie Kamp ,Tsakane,Dikathole in the East rand and Alexandra😢 township etc. were mushrooming as labour pool. In this regard,many black people were given opportunities as they managed to buy properties and open ed businesses.
The type of education,which was known as Royal readers was more of eye opening hence most community leaders were educated,to an extent that some who loved music obtained degrees in music.
Marabi,came into being after one of the black academic figures,by the name of Benedict BAMBATHA' ka Vilakazi who advocated that black people should write their own books and compose their indigenous music. Meanwhile,the Americans also graduated from playing Dixieland jazz to Bozanova jazz and later to Hard Be-bop. On our side,our musicians came up with inimitable African sound known as MARABI.
Thanks for sharing this with my viewers!
Great.... I learned a lot!!!
+Dave Yowell Glad to hear it Dave! :)
Excellent! More!
I have all the references you list below in another reply in my library. I've put together a slide show on a similar subject, more social history, less musical history. But I integrate it with a live performance of representative choral songs. If only I had a band to add the instrumental sounds as well. Really great presentation in 7 minutes. Inspiring!
ValMRogers Sounds Amazing! South Africa's musical and social histories are very much intertwined. Glad you enjoyed the video.
It made me very happy to stumble across this video, and then sad that there aren't more parts in this playlist. :-) Do you have some recommendations on where/how to find out more? I guess simply reading Wikipedia is as reasonable a start as any... Thanks!
To answer my own question with an answer Ethnomusicology Explained! gave earlier on 909Daan's comment:
_"Some major works on South African music include David Coplan - In Township Tonight, Christopher Ballantine - Marabi Nights, and Veit Erlmann - Music, Modernity, and Globalisation. I hope that helps."_
Thanks! That helps! :)
+Hugo van der Merwe Part 3 just went up :) I had let this video series slide a bit.
thanks!
Thank you for taking the time to comment :)
It would be nice to know what this music actually sounded like. You talk about the cultural conditions that gave birth to it it, and I'm grateful for that, but what I'd really like to know is what it sounded like, even a modern approximation.
The music in the background is marabi :)
make a video of the entire history of music but with less explanations/background, just list the types of music/genre per place in history
Such a video would last for days :)
More music, less chat please!
Hi there. This channel is called Ethnomusicology Explained. Explaining music is what I do. So, I'm afraid the chat is here to stay.