Le triolet multicolore : dans la musique sud-africaine, une blanche n'égale pas nécessairement deux noires...

MARTIN, Denis-Constant

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MARTIN, Denis-Constant
Les Afriques dans le monde [LAM]
Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS) [CERI]

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Politique africaine. 1987 n° 25, p. 74-81

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South African music can be perceived as the aesthetical embodiment of a broader dream of cultural unity expressed in different representations and ideologies. History shows that it grew out of many contacts between South Africa’s different communities ; today’s musical forms blend characters borrowed from their cultural traditions. But, because of segregation and apartheid, South African popular music, in spite of its mixity, has acquired a «black» identity that leads supporters of the «white» powers to categorize its practitioners and fans alike as «pro-African» or «anti-apartheid». What is the most complete expression of the common history of South African peoples has therefore been put into the hands of the African majority which is, now, the only group liable to give it back to South Africa as a whole. In this particular respect, as in some others, music participates in the struggle for the liberation of South Africa.< Réduire

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Afrique du Sud

musique

apartheid

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Les Afriques dans le monde (LAM) - UMR 5115