Commerce, politics, and musical hybridity: Vocalizing urban black South African identity during the 1950s

Ethnomusicology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 228-249

  Allen, Lara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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EID: 34248196625     PISSN: 00141836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3113919     Document Type: Article

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