Our Kind of Jazz : musique et identité en Afrique du Sud
Denis-Constant Martin
The history of music, and especially that of jazz and the
popular music styles it spawned, was from the start a story of blends and creations out of these blends. Music thus constantly provides a demonstration
that the ideologies positing non-Europeans as inferior and segregation policies never had any foundation. From the mid-19th century, Afro-American
music styles, first as a borrowing form of Blackface Minstrel songs, then under
the name of jazz, took part in these creative mixes. Jazz helped to conceive
and symbolically express an identitarian complex at the same time asserting
that blacks are human beings like any other and that they have a specific contribution to make to human culture. South African endeavors to appropriate
jazz and its local stylistic evolutions thus became closely tied into the political
events that marked South African in the 20th century and the successive ideological reformulations of the fight against racism.
• Premières révélations de l’Amérique
— Des minstrels en Afrique du Sud
— Et des missionnaires
• Fusions sud-africaines
— L’invention de la matrice musicale sud-africaine
— Le marabi, musique de la ville en voie de ségrégation
— L’African Jazz pour tous
• L’apartheid musical
— Un âge d’or paradoxal et la ré-américanisation du jazz
— Répression et censure
• Résistance et renaissance
— Le Jazz de la Conscience noire
— Les désarrois de la libération
• Une Afrique du Sud unique et chamarrée