Gadzooks! It’s Sophiatown’s Phalanzani Scots Band!

If you’ve ever wondered how “35 pennywhistlers and two drummers, dressed in Scout hats, kilts, tartan sashes, and neckerchiefs” could possibly be connected to the 1956 Alexandra bus boycott, then David B. Coplan’s essay Sophiatown and South African Jazz: Re-appropriating a Cultural Identity is for you. Telling the story of life, and music in particular,… Continue reading Gadzooks! It’s Sophiatown’s Phalanzani Scots Band!