Download or read book African Sociological Review 7, (1), 2003, pp.00-00. BOOK REVIEWS. written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The barbaric civil war in the former Yugoslavian federation, Sri Lanka, and the uneasy calm in the Fiji Islands among the indigenes and emigrants citizens of Indian descent are equally a reminder of the import of the national question. [...] Louise Meintjes's Sound of Africa! takes the reader into the heart of the studio and effectively captures the tedium of the recording process, page by page. [...] She demonstrates the multifaceted ways in which the idea of 'Zuluness' is negotiated and constructed by those involved in the production of the final product. [...] By sitting in on the recording sessions she 'eavesdrops' on the music making process, and captures the quarrels, the joking and the experimentation integral to any recording process. [...] This ranges from the use of the ngoma drum, the actual timbre of the drum, the poetics and narratives of the lyrics and the Mahlathini-style growling vocals to the Zulu costumes worn by the musicians in the album cover photographs and the performance of Zulu dancing in the group's concerts.