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4.0 out of 5 stars Talented, under oppression, July 2, 2004
This review is from: African Stars: Studies in Black South African Performance (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) (Paperback)
Written in the twilight years of apartheid, this book conveys some of the spirit of black South Africans as they struggled against a cruel dictatorship. Erlmann surveys the field from 1890 to 1990.

In going through his descriptions of the people, one has to wonder. In a different and better period, some of the musicians and actors might have become world famous. The comparison to African-American singers is inevitable. Yet for most of the performers that Erlmann mentions, only fragments of memory and aging photos and LPs remain.

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