One Love, Ghoema Beat: Inside the Cape Town Carnival

by John Edwin Mason

One Love, Ghoema Beat: Inside the Cape Town Carnival takes readers behind the scenes of one of the world's least known and most colorful carnivals. Similar in many ways to Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, the Cape Town Carnival is unique in its history, which is rooted in South Africa's troubled past, and in its music, which is propelled by the mesmerizing ghoema beat.

In 2006, historian and photographer John...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813930596
• ISBN13: 9780813930596
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 7.8"