{"id":150,"date":"2013-08-27T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/2013\/11\/07\/the-township-musical-world-in-a-transnational-perspective-sophiatown-1930-1960\/"},"modified":"2017-11-30T17:20:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:20:21","slug":"the-township-musical-world-in-a-transnational-perspective-sophiatown-1930-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/events\/workshops-seminars\/the-township-musical-world-in-a-transnational-perspective-sophiatown-1930-1960\/","title":{"rendered":"The Township Musical World in a Transnational Perspective:  Sophiatown (1930-1960)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/conf-grabli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/conf-grabli.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/conf-grabli.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/conf-grabli-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/conf-grabli-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/conf-grabli-1024x563.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH)<br \/>\n28 August 2013<\/h4>\n<p><strong>11:00 &#8211; Sophiatown Heritage and Cultural Centre<\/strong><br \/>\nCnr Toby Street &amp; Edward Road<br \/>\nSophiatown, Johannesburg<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Charlotte Grabli<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>PhD Candidate, \u201cHistoire et civilisations\u201d, EHESS<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Located on the fringe of the colonial cities, the Congolese and South-African townships gave rise to the most popular musical scene on the continent. In this context of exclusion from European domination, analysing the evolution of practices making up these musical worlds can shed light on popular logic and social dynamics at work in Brazzaville, Kinshasa and Johannesburg. By focusing on the example of spaces of sociability in the South African township of Sophiatown, I will discuss how musical practices contribute to the rise of the political culture. This community, that remains the symbol of the African creative autonomy, is a particularly revealing case.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 28 August 2013 11:00 &#8211; Sophiatown Heritage and Cultural Centre Cnr Toby Street &amp; Edward Road Sophiatown, Johannesburg &nbsp; Charlotte Grabli PhD Candidate, \u201cHistoire et civilisations\u201d, EHESS Located on the fringe of the colonial cities, the Congolese and South-African townships gave rise to the most popular musical scene on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-workshops-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}