Papers by Paulette Coetzee
BRILL eBooks, May 8, 2012
... 1 & 2, (Roodepoort: ILAM, 1973). 9 Tracey, 'The Social Role of African Music... more ... 1 & 2, (Roodepoort: ILAM, 1973). 9 Tracey, 'The Social Role of African Music', African Affairs 53.212 (1954): 234–241. 10 Tracey, 'The State of Folk Music in Bantu Africa', Journal of the International Folk Music Council 6 (1954): 32. 11 Ibid. ...
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2000
English in Africa, 1996
In his review in July 1969 of Bessie Head's first novel, When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), Jame... more In his review in July 1969 of Bessie Head's first novel, When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), James Matthews provided some vital information about her early unpublished writing. Remarking that the work under review "could not exactly be called the first novel written by Bessie Head, but ... her first one published," he went on to allude to her arrival in Cape Town as "that of a shy mission-reared girl who wrote pastoral poems and wore cardigans tightly buttoned up to her neck." He added: "From pastoral poetry she advanced to a short-lived four-page sheet edited by herself and "wrote a novel while locked up in a hotel room in District Six, living on bread and beer supplied by friends" (1969, 9). The novel has of course now seen light of day as The Cardinals (1993); the poetry, however, has until now been thought lost and irrecoverable. The only poem Head ever published in her lifetime was "Things I Don't Like" (which appeared in The New...
Cultural studies review, 2020
This paper examines two works that anticipate Africa-centred futures as positive and possible, wi... more This paper examines two works that anticipate Africa-centred futures as positive and possible, without promising utopia. Americanah and After the Flare both embrace contradiction and complexity. Furthermore, their treatment of societies (mis)shaped by historical violence includes acknowledgement of their own imbrication in global structures of capitalist modernity. Against the grim backdrop of rising inequality, resurgent racism and the effects of climate change – a moment in which dystopic visions tend to predominate – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Deji Bryce Olukotun’s novels embody a kind of hope. Nonetheless, these alternatives to dystopia do not imagine that the problems and abuses of the present might easily be overcome. Thus, despite their employment of popular genres that invite rather than disavow pleasure, these fictions do not simply offer a form of escapism to distract us as the world burns. Rather, I would argue, they provide useful perspectives on Africa, on race and on...
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2000
This article contributes to the growing body of revisionist scholarship on the work of Hugh Trace... more This article contributes to the growing body of revisionist scholarship on the work of Hugh Tracey (1903-1977), who compiled the major collection of recordings of African music that is housed at the institution he founded, the International Library of African Music (ILAM). Several scholars have probed the complexities of Tracey’s socio-historical position and drawn attention to ways in which his academic work participates in and aligns itself with colonial and apartheid structures of thought. Taking a somewhat different approach, this article focusses on how Tracey managed and marketed his musical enterprise within the colonial field of power. It contextualises and examines his interactions with officials who enabled his tours and became corporate clients of ILAM during the 1950s, and his attempts to form similar relationships with the apartheid state. An analysis of correspondence between Tracey and a representative of the Central African Federation reveals his openness to the use ...
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 1999
Situating Popular Musics: IASPM 16th International Conference Proceedings, 2012
English in Africa, 1996
In his review in July 1969 of Bessie Head's first novel, When Rain Clouds Gather (1968),... more In his review in July 1969 of Bessie Head's first novel, When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), James Matthews provided some vital information about her early unpublished writing. Remarking that the work under review "could not exactly be called the first novel written by Bessie Head, ...
Current Writing Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 1999
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