
Mr Entertainment
The story of Taliep Petersen
Paula Fourie(Author)
LAPA Publishers
Published on 1. September 2022
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392 pages
978-0-6396-0120-5 (ISBN)
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In Mr Entertainment , we hear the voices of the people who knew Taliep Petersen best: his family, friends and collaborators. Their stories bring to life the spaces he inhabited, vividly recounting scenes from his childhood, his rise to fame from the Cape Coon Carnival stage to the West End, his artistic collaborations, most notably with David Kramer, his family life, and his tragic death and its aftermath. In this pioneering biography of one of Cape Town's most beloved entertainers, we encounter Petersen as a complex and many-sided personality whose influence continues to reverberate in national life.
Mr Entertainment evokes not just Taliep's life, but also the music and entertainment landscapes of the 1950s to 2000s and their diverse and irrepressible cultural traditions. Along the way, it brings us to the front row of South Africa's difficult history.Drawing on the musician's personal archive and on more than fifty interviews conducted over a decade, Paula Fourie has pieced together a fascinating portrait of Taliep Petersen, acutely observed and poignantly captured.
Mr Entertainment evokes not just Taliep's life, but also the music and entertainment landscapes of the 1950s to 2000s and their diverse and irrepressible cultural traditions. Along the way, it brings us to the front row of South Africa's difficult history.Drawing on the musician's personal archive and on more than fifty interviews conducted over a decade, Paula Fourie has pieced together a fascinating portrait of Taliep Petersen, acutely observed and poignantly captured.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pretoria
South Africa
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-6396-0120-5 (9780639601205)
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Person
Paula Fourie is a writer who holds fellowships at the Bern University of the Arts and the Africa Open Institute at Stellenbosch University. She is also an occasional theatre director and the co-author (with Athol Fugard) of Concerning the Life of Babyboy Kleintjies. Paula's published work includes academic articles, essays, interviews, dramatic texts, and poetry, the last-mentioned having appeared in several journals including New Contrast, Stanzas and New Coin.