Lindelwa Dalamba currently works at the Wits School of Arts, Department of Music, University of the Witwatersrand. She is an historian of South African jazz, focusing on its career in the country...

Documentary and Other Conservative Musical Projects. Zimbabwean Mbira Music on an International Stage: Chartwell Dutiro’s Life in Music. Edited by Chartwell Dutiro and Keith Howard. SOAS Musicology...

Very Urgent was understood as an important statement of the British jazz avant-garde movement that captured the spirit of 1968, infused with the Blue Notes’ musical South Africanisms. In this...

Lindelwa Dalamba via Scopus - Elsevier “Popular Music, Folk Music, African Music: King Kong in South Africa and London” Situating Popular Musics, IASPM 16th International Conference Proceedings

Lindelwa Dalamba, University of the Witwatersrand: 88 Followers, 37 Following, 9 Research papers. Research interests: Music, Musicology, and Jazz History.

2019年4月3日 · In this article, I explore how shifting understandings of jazz in the 1960s aided and undermined the Blue Notes’ musical identities: as mbaqanga, hard bop, and free jazz musicians. I argue that Very Urgent and, to an extent, the Blue Notes cannot be understood solely in the terms favored by their early reception in Britain.

Dr Lindelwa Dalamba teaches music history at the University of the Witwatersrand's School of Arts, Department of Music. She is an historian of jazz, focussing specifically on South African jazz...

Dalamba, L. (2012) “Disempowering music: The Amandla! Documentary and other conservative musical projects,” Safundi, 13 (3-4), pp. 295–315. doi: 10.1080/17533171.2012.715417. Scholars of black South African popular music have established important connections between music and …

Lindelwa Dalamba, University of the Witwatersrand In 1964 a young South African student and photography enthusiast, Norman Owen-Smith, took his Leica camera along to a jazz concert at the then University of Natal Pietermaritzburg’s Great Hall and captured a series of black and white images of the band, the Blue Notes.

Dalamba is a village in the Sidéradougou Department of Comoé Province in south-western Burkina Faso. The village has a population of 480. [1]