Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… musicians against the apartheid regime, from the early 1950s until the 1990s, focusing on the work of one artist … that was no luxury, since “it was not until the end of the 1950s that copyright and royalty arrangements were … melody composed by trumpeter Elijah Nkonyane in the late 1950s with marabi, Xhosa ragtime, and hymn township rhythms …