South African Soundscapes – A Century’s Popular Music History

This online exhibition grew out of a student project titled “From Zulu choirs to Kwaito – the development of music history and culture in South Africa (1867-2017)”, carried out at the Department of History of the University of Basel in the autumn semester of 2017. The main emphases were: working with the material of the fledgling sound collection of the BAB Library and the study of the development of music cultures in close connection with the political history of South Africa. Link: https://www.baslerafrika.ch/soundscapes/