From the author:     “On a winter’s day in 1974, a group of musicians led by Abdullah Ibrahim (or Dollar Brand, as most still knew him) entered a recording studio on Bloem Street, in the heart of Cape Town, and emerged, hours later, having changed South African music forever. Together, they had created ‘Mannenberg’, a song that quickly became a national and international hit.” John Edwin Mason is the author of Social Death and Resurrection: Slavery and Emancipation in South Africa and many articles on South African jazz. He is pursuing two multi-year documentary photography projects, one on drag racing in the American South and the other on the New Year Carnival in Cape Town. He is also a member of the Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra.   8.8 x 12.5 cm | 64 pages | softcover      About the publisher: “Chimurenganyana is a series of solos culled from Chimurenga, a pan African publication of writing, art and politics based in Cape Town.”