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A musical legend in South Africa under his middle name, Mahlathini, which was also the name of his music group, Nkabinde helped popularize Zulu music around the world. The group's style, known as "Mbaqanga", pushed Mahlathini to the top of the African music charts in the 1960s and 70s. The group's resurgence in 1984 inspired a number of currently popular township pop bands. Nkabinde died July 28 from complications from diabetes. He was 61. From This is True for 25 July 1999 Suggestions for further reading:
Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio  By: Carol Ann Muller List Price: $32.50 Amazon Price: $32.50 Editorial Review: With close to one million members, the Church of the Nazarites (ibandla lamaNazaretha) is one of the most popular indigenous religious communities in South Africa. Founded in 1910 by Isaiah Shembe, it offers South Africans—particularly disadvantaged black women and girls—a way to remake and reconnect to ancient sacred traditions disrupted by colonialism and apartheid. Ethnomusicologist Carol Muller explores the everyday lives of Nazarite women through their religious songs and dances, dream narratives, and fertility rituals, which come to life both musically and visually on CD-ROM. Against the backdrop of South Africa's turbulent history, Muller shows how Shembe's ideas of female ritual purity developed as a response to a regime and culture that pushed all things associated with women, cultural expression, and Africanness to the margins. Carol Muller breaks new ground in the study of this changing region and along the way includes fascinating details of her own poignant journey, as a young, white South African woman, to the "other" side of a divided society.  By: Veit Erlmann List Price: $32.50 Amazon Price: $26.30 Editorial Review: First popularized by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Paul Simon, the a cappella music known as isicathamiya has become internationally celebrated as one of South Africa's most vibrant and distinct performance traditions. But Ladysmith Black Mambazo is only one of hundreds of choirs that perform "nightsongs" during weekly all-night competitions in South Africa's cities. Veit Erlmann provides the first comprehensive interpretation of isicathamiya performance practice and its relation to the culture and consciousness of the Zulu migrant laborers who largely compose its choirs. In songs and dances, the performers oppose the class and racial oppression that reduces them to "labor units." At the same time, Erlmann argues, the performers rework dominant images to symbolically reconstruct their "home," an imagined world of Zulu rural tradition and identity. By contrasting the live performance of isicathamiya to its reproduction in mass media, recordings, and international concerts, Erlmann addresses important issues in performance studies and anthropology, and looks to the future of isicathamiya live performance in the new South Africa. Featuring an Introduction by Joseph Shabalala, the lead singer and founder of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the study of music, performance, popular culture, or South Africa. The Hymns And Sabbath Liturgy for Morning And Evening Prayer of Isaiah Shembe... By: Andreas HeuserIrving HexhamHans-Jurgen BeckenIsaiah Shembe List Price: $109.95 Amazon Price: $109.95 The Collection of Father Franz Mayr Zulu Recordings 1908: Tondokumente Aus De... List Price: $60.00 Amazon Price: $60.00 |
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