This is one of the best books to have emerged from South African musicology in the last decade It opens up a new level of discourse about music during the apartheid era: a level on which the theoretical, the ethical, the historical and the aesthetic play against each other in newly meaningful ways - Roger Parker, King's College, University of London

Composing Apartheid is the first book ever to chart the musical world of a notorious period in world history, apartheid South Africa. It explores how music was produced through, and was productive of, key features of apartheid's social and political topography, as well as how music and musicians contested and even helped to conquer apartheid. The collection of essays is intentionally broad, and the contributors include historians, sociologists and anthropologists, as well as ethnomusicologists, music theorists and historical musicologists.

The essays focus on a variety of musics (jazz, music in the Western art tradition, popular music) and on major composers (such as Kevin Volans) and works (Handel's Messiah). Musical institutions and previously little-researched performers (such as the ANC troupe-in-exile, Amandla) are explored. The writers move well beyond their subject matter, intervening in debates on race, historiography and postcolonial epistemologies and pedagogies.

Grant Olwage, editor and contributor, is a Senior Lecturer in Music in the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Contributors: Lara Allen, Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Gary Baines, Rhodes University; Ingrid Byerly, Duke University; Christopher Cockburn, University of KwaZulu-Natal; David Coplan, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Michael Drewett, Rhodes University; Shirli Gilbert, University of Southampton; Christine Lucia, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Carol A. Muller, University of Pennsylvania; Stephanus Muller, University of Stellenbosch; Brett Pyper, New York University; Martin Scherzinger, Eastman School of Music.

978 1 86814 456 3

Soft cover, illustrated, 235x155mm, 320 pp

April 2008

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