Soul Brothers: the story of a band that revolutionised South African music
BIOGRAPHIES of important South African musicians often fall into two categories: they either emerge from PhD or other university-based research or are the fruit of dedicated digging by a fan or family member. The first kind benefits from institutional resources and support; the second from community knowledge of personal details that may be documented nowhere else. GWEN ANSELL, Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria Because of that very scarcity of a public record, the first kind might miss many parts of the story that can’t be checked in formal records and archives. The second risks…
