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BOOK IS AVAILABLE !!! Introduction to South African Guitar Styles Vol.1 - Five Decades of Ukuvamba (1930s-1980s) Now available in all good bookstores countrywide and online.

Introduction to South African Guitar Styles Vol. 1 is an exploration of the history of the guitar in Black South African popular music over five decades and the most important styles to have evolved around it. A4 paperback with182 pages consisting of seven chapters: Maskanda, African jazz, Development of the Jazz Guitar, African Jazz Post-1960s, Kwela, Mbaqanga and xiTsonga. It is an accessible tutorial for those who can formally read music and those who play only by ear, and it contains online visuals for reference purposes.

Biographies of the artists profiled and the historical background of each of the musical styles are provided. To add depth and perspective, guest artists were invited to address various aspects of the tutorials and provide demonstrations and interviews in videos that are available on www.billymonama.co.za. Over 90 transcribed scores are also provided with audio guide tracks available for free on [ Ссылка ]

“What started in 1976 has not been finished, and it is in our hands as the youth of South Africa to emancipate the Bantu Education System that was installed by Hendrick Verwoerd in 1953”. – Billy Monama

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Billy Monama is a South African guitarist, author, composer, arranger, producer, and educator, founder and the managing director of The Grazroots Project. To read more about Monama’s full biography, visit www.billymonama.co.za

FOR DIRECT ORDERS, CONTACT:
Angela McClelland: angela@ste.co.za

www.realafricanpublishers.com This book is published by Real African Publishers, an independent South African publisher committed to publishing the works of ordinary and extraordinary Africans from all over the continent.

TESTIMONIALS:

‘This documentation is rich and unique in its novelty and will enrich music education in South Africa and the world immensely’. - Dr Sello Galane, University of Pretoria

‘Billy is clearly rising as an authority on the fascinating, beautifully complex and lyrical world of South African Guitar, bravo Billy’. - Prof Richard Smith, University of Southern California

‘Billy does vital work in documenting and a transmitting historical knowledge, I know I will learn much from this book and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to my students’. - Dr Chris Letcher, University of Edinburgh

‘This invaluable contribution to academia is a milestone to be celebrated’. – Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse

'There are books on South African Music, especially Jazz, but nothing like this one. It is exceptional, I look forward to seeing it in the Wits Library and having my own copy’. – Prof Carlo Mombelli, Wits University

‘This book is multi-functional and multi-disciplinary. It encompasses not only musicology but promotes informal learning and community learning, contributes to indigenous knowledge systems and enhancing existing tertiary music programmes. – Dr Roland Moses Tshwane University of Technology

‘SA popular music is in your debt for undertaking this task and sticking with it for so long, during an extended period when nobody noticed what you were doing. Respect!’— Gwen Ansell, jazz critic

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