Paul Simon's Graceland
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 17 September 2026
- ISBN 9798765126066
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages152 pages
- Size 196.85x127 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
An illumination of Graceland, Paul Simon's celebrated and controversial album of 1986, made in collaboration with American and Black South African musicians against the violent backdrop of apartheid.
MoreLong description:
Celebrated, controversial, and conspicuously eclectic, Paul Simon's Graceland stands among the monumental albums of the 20th century. This book explores how and why it made its mark, from the international collaborations that defined its musical character, to the inflamed political environment from which it emerged.
Graceland incorporated some of South Africa's most beloved popular music traditions, including 'township jive', kwela, and the intricate isicathamiya harmonies of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. It also featured contributions from Central and West African musicians, alongside an array of North American styles - Chicano rock, country, synth-pop, Louisiana zydeco - and, of course, Simon's characteristically abstract poetics.
This book revisits Graceland as an important example of the global relevance of African music. Released in 1986, amid an intensified period of anti-apartheid activism across world, the album had a unique relationship to South Africa: it drew attention to apartheid and Black African music while its popular significance was simultaneously propelled by the anti-apartheid movement. As a collaborative, cross-cultural project straddling the boundaries of a deeply unequal world - economically, politically, racially - Graceland invites reflection on the relationship between art and politics, both then and now.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Graceland, Apartheid, and Black South African Music
2. The Road to Graceland
3. 'The Boy in the Bubble'
4. 'Graceland'
5. 'I Know What I Know', 'Gumboots', and 'Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes': The Heterogeneity of South African Popular Music
6. Detour: The Unsettled Histories of South African Popular Music
7. All Around the World Under African Skies
8. The Politics of Collaboration
9. Saint George
