Beschreibung:
Tells the story of Sathima Bea Benjamin, a South African jazz singer who moved to the U.S. in the 1960s, in order to consider cultural and racial politics of jazz in a transnational context.
The life story of the outstanding jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin sheds light on South African jazz history, women in jazz, and American music as a transnational art form
List of Figures ixPreface xiiiAcknowledgments xxiiiA Tribute by Abdullah Ibrahim: "Sathima" xxxiSathima: My Life's Journey as a Jazz Singer xxxiii1. Beginnings 12. A Home Within 11Call: Recollecting a Musical Past 11Response: Entanglement in Race and Music 333. Cape Jazz 53Call: Popular Music, Dance Bands, and Jazz 53Response: Imagining Musical Lineage through Duke and Billie 954. Jazz Migrancy 128Call: Musicians Abroad 128Response: A New African Diaspora 1675. A New York Embrace 189Call: Coming to the City 189Response: Women Thinking in Jazz, or the Poetics of a Musical Self 2176. Returning Home? 242Call: Cape Town Love / An Archeology of Popular Song 242Response: Jazz History as Living History 2607. Musical Echoes 271Call: Sathima's Musical Echo 271Response: Reflections on Echo 2748. Outcomes-Jazz in the World 283Notes 297Selected References 325Index 337