Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination - Erlmann, Veit (Professor and Endowed Chair, School of Music, Professor and Endowed Chair, School of Music, University of Texas, Austin)

How do Western images of Africa and African representations of the West mirror each other? In this text the author illuminates the complex issues involved in the making of modern identities in Africa, Europe and the USA, focusing on two episodes in the history of black South African music.