1/20/2024 0 Comments Township jazz definition![]() Why this love affair with jazz and not local South African musical genres such as Mbaqanga, Sqathamiya, Marabi, African traditional music or other musical genres? The legendary black South African novelist Es’kia Mphahlele, in a critique of negritude, wrote: “It may be startling to a non-South African to notice how much of our cultural life is American … In every South African town, big and small, there are jazz bands and troupes.” This is an edited excerpt from Looking Through Philosophy in Black: Memoirs which has just been published by Rowman & Littlefield. In this extract from his new memoir of the life of the mind Mabogo Percy More, winner of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015, reflects on the relationship between jazz and political consciousness in townships of the 1950s and 1960s. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window).Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window).Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). ![]() Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). ![]()
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