Title: South African Music

 Contents

a) Describe the impact of 19th century United States' blackface minstrel groups and "black" "jubilee" choirs on South African "black" society and music.

b) What did South Africa's black social critics mean by the term "msakazo"? How is the "simanje-manje" style illustrative of msakazo? 

c) Why was African American soul music so popular among young "black" South Africans in the 1960s?

d) Why was Paul Simon's 'Graceland' project, which did so much to promote black South African music and musicians, so controversial among "black" political activists in South Africa?

e) Discuss the different ways of looking at this project from a political perspective.

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