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Living for the city : Drum magazine's journalism and the popular black press
Includes bibliographical references.
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2014
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| author | Lane, Katie |
| author2 | Nasson, Bill |
| author_browse | Lane, Katie Nasson, Bill |
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| description | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| publishDate | 2014 |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8169 Living for the city : Drum magazine's journalism and the popular black press Lane, Katie Nasson, Bill Historical Studies Includes bibliographical references. This study examines Drum magazine's journalism from 951 to 1959. Many studies have primarily examined Drum and its role as a vehicle for the "Sophiatown generation" of fiction in the 1950s but this study instead concentrates on Drum's non-fiction reporting. It looks at both Drum's role in the birth of the popular black press and the magazine's complex conceptions of urban life. It argues that Drum's non-fiction promoted a cosmopolitan identity for its urban readers, in direct opposition to the efforts by the apartheid government to "retribralise" black urban residents, but also reflected anxieties about the urban experience. Drum was also one of the first non-partisan black publications to make political news accessible to a mass audience and the study argues that Drum's coverage of black politics has been overlooked and sometimes underestimated. 2014-10-06T11:35:50Z 2014-10-06T11:35:50Z 2006 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8169 eng application/pdf Department of Historical Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Historical Studies Lane, Katie Living for the city : Drum magazine's journalism and the popular black press |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Living for the city : Drum magazine's journalism and the popular black press |
| title_full | Living for the city : Drum magazine's journalism and the popular black press |
| title_fullStr | Living for the city : Drum magazine's journalism and the popular black press |
| title_full_unstemmed | Living for the city : Drum magazine's journalism and the popular black press |
| title_short | Living for the city : Drum magazine's journalism and the popular black press |
| title_sort | living for the city drum magazine s journalism and the popular black press |
| topic | Historical Studies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8169 |
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