One Love, Ghoema Beat - Inside the Cape Town Carnival
Each year, the coloured working class of Cape Town celebrates itself in a spectacularly exuberant Carnival. Historian, photographer and musician John Edwin Mason spent three Carnival seasons with one troupe, the Pennsylvanians Crooning Minstrels, becoming an 'honorary member' and marching in full troupe gear, camera in hand.

About the Author - John Edwin Mason
John Edwin Mason teaches African history and history of photography at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, United States of America. He has written extensively on the history of Cape Town, an interest that led him, slowly but inevitably, to the New Year Carnival. As a photographer, he also contributes regularly to music and motor-sports magazines. ...[more about John Edwin Mason]