Kaapse Klopse: Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, Celebrating a Tradition of More Than 100 Years

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Gerald Hoberman

Kaapse Klopse

Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, Celebrating a Tradition of More Than 100 Years

Gerald Hoberman

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The Gerald & Marc Hoberman Collection
01 January 2009

Photography & photographs; Pageants, parades, festivals; Places & peoples: pictorial works

In a unique cultural statement, Kaapse Klopse features the colourful and lively Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, held for the first three days of the New Year. The music and dance style of the 'Kaapse Klopse' (Cape Minstrels) was influenced by the North American minstrel troupes that visited the Cape in the late 1880s. Traditionally, the colourful and lively minstrels cavort through the city, singing and dancing to the sound of banjos, tubas, guitars, ghoema drums and whistles. The book features extraordinary contemporary photographs of this event by Gerald Hoberman, with an historical overview as well as unique photographs of District Six and Bo-Kaap, taken by him in 1969. The entertaining and insightful traditional minstrel songs are published with English translations for the first time - a valuable contribution to the cultural history of the Cape.

By: Gerald Hoberman
Imprint: The Gerald & Marc Hoberman Collection
Dimensions: Height: 255mm, Width: 255mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 953g
ISBN: 9781919939520
ISBN 10: 1919939520
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 01 January 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gerald Hoberman, founder of the world-renowned Hoberman Collection, is a master photographer, author, designer and specialist publisher of distinction. The Hoberman Collection's ever-growing collection of photographically illustrated books and photographs is widely published and in constant demand. He has a special affinity with his home town and its people, 'The fairest Cape in all the world'.