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

Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to

As the most influential and powerful country on the entire continent of Africa, an understanding of South Africa’s past and its present trends is crucial in a

For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in

The major objective of this collection of 28 essays is to analyze the trends, musical formats, and rhetorical devices used in popular music to illuminate the hu