John Edwin Mason

World History

This Day In History

Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

John Edwin Mason teaches African history and the history of photography. He has written extensively on early nineteenth-century South Africa history, especially the history of slavery, and on South African popular culture, especially the Cape Town New Year's Carnival and jazz. He is now working on "Picturing Africa in the American Century," a book length manuscript about the ways in which American magazines, especially Life, represented Africa from the end of World War 2 until the 1970s. He is also a documentary photographer with a long-term interest in exploring race and gender in American motor sports. Until recently, he was an active musician, performing with the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra, the Lynchburg (Virginia) Symphony Orchestra, and the New Lyric Theatre, among many other groups. He contributes regularly to Ellingtonia, the publication of the Duke Ellington Society. Recent Publications: "Picturing the Beloved Country: Margaret Bourke-White, Life Magazine, and South Africa, 1949-1950," Kronos, 38 (November, 2012). One Love, Ghoema Beat: Inside the Cape Town New Year's Carnival, (Cape Town and Charlottesville: Random House Struik and the University of Virginia Press, 2010).

One Love, Ghoema Beat

December 06, 2012

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8903882-one-love-ghoema-beat One Love, Ghoema Beat: Inside the Cape Town Carnival by John Edwin Mason "One Love,…

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