Books By David Coplan - Author

David Coplan is a well-respected writer and film maker. He arrived in South Africa in the early 1970s as an anthropology researcher at the University of Cape Town. His first book In Township Tonight, was pioneering social history of urban black music, dance and theatre in South Africa. A friend of the Holmes's, he too found sanctuary at the Bassline when he moved to Johannesburg to take up a professorship at the University of the Witwatersrand. Oscar Gutierrez arrived in South Africa in 1994. As a photojournalist he has documented a great range of events and issues in politics, religion and music with an impressive client list that includes The Cape Town International Jazz Festival, The G8 Music Festival, the Orbit and Bassline. Oscar Gutierrez has an extensive photographic collection of contemporary South African music.