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The Music of Mzilikazi Khumalo

Author : Thomas Pooley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book The Music of Mzilikazi Khumalo written by Thomas Pooley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932-2021), an iconic figure in choral music in South Africa, rose to prominence as one of Africa's leading composers of art music. This is a work of music history. Biographical essays on Khumalo's major works, including those for choir, orchestra, and opera are complemented by contextual studies of his compositions and arrangements as well as reflections on his roles as editor, conductor, and music director. Specifically in the context of South Africa's cultural and political transition from Apartheid to democracy, Khumalo's key role in establishing the Nation Building Massed Choir Festival, a multi-racial institution that forged an inclusive space for music, in the 1980s is discussed as evidence of his importance and relevance in South African culture. Khumalo's major works are studied in relation to contemporary art music, choral composition, and traditional song. These are UShaka KaSenzangakhona (1996), an African epic, and Princess Magogo KaDinuzulu (2002), one of the first indigenous African operas. Khumalo's artistic collaborators provide insight into their experiences working on these major projects, documenting the relationships the composer cultivated with his peers. This volume addresses a lacuna in the literature on South African art music which until recently tended to focus on works in the classical tradition and shows that Khumalo is a composer without peer in his synthesis of classical and choral, traditional and contemporary.

Inyathi Ibuzwa Kwabaphambili

Author : Babalwa Magoqwana
Publisher : Mandela University Press
ISBN 13 : 1998959074
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Inyathi Ibuzwa Kwabaphambili written by Babalwa Magoqwana and published by Mandela University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to create a systematic, eclectic, historical picture of the present and past women intellectuals, activists, artists, and cultural custodians. Using the concept of ‘ukufukama’ (incubate) we connect intergenerational knowledge transfer of our elders to the current struggles faced by the younger generation of women. We bring together different authors who engage the biographical and intellectual contributions of different African women and their imagination of the democratic South Africa. Writing about the various feminist intellectual traditions between the 19th and 21st centuries, this book systematically pulls together oral and creative texts to recover the memories of Nosuthu Jotelo, Sarah Baartman, Nontsizi Mgqwetho, Phyllis Ntantala, Brigalia Bam, Umntwana uMagogo, Miriam Makeba, Sibongile Khumalo, Lebo Mathosa, Thandiswa Mazwai, Celeste Ntuli, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Neo Mathabe among the lives and works covered here. This range of voices shows that intellectual work is varied and has the ability to sit alongside each other. It importantly shows that scholarship emerges through community and conversation, which is to say feminist histories are created and recreated through conversations that care about women’s voices, stories, and being in the world. Ultimately, we think of the women featured in this book as forming a lineage, a tradition of black women’s’ survival wisdom, which facilitated change and enduring, radical transformation that demands theorisation and celebration.

African Theatre

Author : Christine Matzke
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847012574
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book African Theatre written by Christine Matzke and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts.

Social Voices

Author : Levi S. Gibbs
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252054768
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Social Voices written by Levi S. Gibbs and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singers generating cultural identity from K-Pop to Beverly Sills Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian legend Lata Mangeshkar, and pop superstar Teresa Teng. Topics include gendered performances and the negotiation of race and class identities; the class-related contradictions exposed by the divide between highbrow and pop culture; links between narratives of overcoming struggle and the distinction between privileged and marginalized identities; singers’ ability to adapt to shifting notions of history, borders, gender, and memory in order to connect with listeners; how the meanings we read into a singer’s life and art build on one another; and technology’s ability to challenge our ideas about what constitutes music. Cutting-edge and original, Social Voices reveals how singers and their songs equip us to process social change and divergent opinions. Contributors: Christina D. Abreu, Michael K. Bourdaghs, Kwame Dawes, Nancy Guy, Ruth Hellier, John Lie, Treva B. Lindsey, Eric Lott, Katherine Meizel, Carol A. Muller, Natalie Sarrazin, Anthony Seeger, Carol Silverman, Andrew Simon, Jeff Todd Titon, and Elijah Wald

A Passage of Nostalgia

Author : Martina Viljoen
Publisher : UJ Press
ISBN 13 : 1928424732
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book A Passage of Nostalgia written by Martina Viljoen and published by UJ Press. This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacobus Kloppers, an eminent composer, organist, pedagogue, and scholar, significantly contributed to musicological and organ teaching in South Africa and Canada and, in the latter context, art music, and liturgical composition. A Passage of Nostalgia – The Life and Work of Jacobus Kloppers, as a symbolic gesture, constitute recognition of his work both in South Africa and Canada. This publication is unique in that, apart from relevant disciplinary perspectives, biographical and autobiographical narrative, and anecdote, all constitute a necessary means through which the authors illuminate Kloppers’ compositional process and its creative outcomes. In this regard, Kloppers generously dedicated his time to the project to make information on his life and work available, often in complex ways. This retrospective input supports the work offered as an authentic, self-reflective recounting of a life of dedicated service in music. The construct of nostalgia as an overarching theme to this volume on some level denotes Kloppers’ position of cultural and religious ‘insidedness’ and ‘outsidedness’. However, apart from representing a return to a lost and challenging past, the composer’s creative work affirms his individuality, sense of artistic self, and propensity for spiritual acceptance and tolerance. Moreover, nostalgia in his oeuvre takes on importance as a rhetorical artistic practice by which continuity is as central as discontinuity.

Beyond Memory

Author : Max Mojapelo
Publisher : African Minds
ISBN 13 : 1920299289
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Memory written by Max Mojapelo and published by African Minds. This book was released on 2008 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa possesses one of the richest popular music traditions in the world - from marabi to mbaqanga, from boeremusiek to bubblegum, from kwela to kwaito. Yet the risk that future generations of South Africans will not know their musical roots is very real. Of all the recordings made here since the 1930s, thousands have been lost for ever, for the powers-that-be never deemed them worthy of preservation. And if one peruses the books that exist on South African popular music, one still fi nds that their authors have on occasion jumped to conclusions that were not as foregone as they had assumed. Yet the fault lies not with them, rather in the fact that there has been precious little documentation in South Africa of who played what, or who recorded what, with whom, and when. This is true of all music-making in this country, though it is most striking in the musics of the black communities. Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South African Music is an invaluable publication because it offers a first-hand account of the South African music scene of the past decades from the pen of a man, Max Thamagana Mojapelo, who was situated in the very thick of things, thanks to his job as a deejay at the South African Broadcasting Corporation. This book - astonishing for the breadth of its coverage - is based on his diaries, on interviews he conducted and on numerous other sources, and we find in it not only the well-known names of recent South African music but a countless host of others whose contribution must be recorded if we and future generations are to gain an accurate picture of South African music history of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music

Author : André de Quadros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107493390
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music written by André de Quadros and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choral music is now undoubtedly the foremost genre of participatory music making, with more people singing in choirs than ever before. Written by a team of leading international practitioners and scholars, this Companion addresses the history of choral music, its emergence and growth worldwide and its professional practice. The volume sets out a historical survey of the genre and follows with a kaleidoscopic bird's eye view of choral music from all over the world. Chapters vividly portray the emergence and growth of choral music from its Quranic antecedents in West and Central Asia to the baroque churches of Latin America, representing its global diversity. Uniquely, the book includes a pedagogical section where several leading choral musicians write about the voice and the inner workings of a choir and give their professional insights into choral practice. This Companion will appeal to choral scholars, directors and performers alike.

Music and Coexistence

Author : Osseily Hanna
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442237546
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Music and Coexistence written by Osseily Hanna and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and Coexistence:A Journey across the World in Search of Musicians Making a Difference is both study and travelogue, as author Osseily Hanna explores the courageous work of musicians who compose and perform with their ostensible enemies or in extraordinary social situations. He documents the political and economic constraints faced by musicians, from the wall that encloses a refugee camp in Jerusalem, to the tensions among KFOR and Carabinieri peacekeepers who keep Serbs and Kosovar Albanians apart, to the cultural and linguistic suppression that afflicts minority communities in Turkey. A multilingual musician, Hanna examines the lives of the individuals and groups at the forefront of the effort to bridge ethnic, cultural, and religious divisions. Featuring musicians from thirteen different countries and territories across five continents, Hanna’s story includes a remarkable cadre of performers, such as the musicians who comprise Heartbeat, a group of Israeli and Palestinian youth, who compose, record, and perform music together; the Albino musicians of Tanzania, who regularly combat persecution by local shamans; the multiracial and thriving samba musicians in Sao Paolo; and a former child soldier from Cambodia who seeks to revive traditional music following the genocide in the 1970s. With photos taken by the author during his travels, this work is a unique contribution for those interested in world music and peace studies. This unique and remarkable work will open the eyes and the hearts of every musician and music lover who recognizes music as a universal language.

Soweto Blues

Author : Gwen Ansell
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826417534
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Soweto Blues written by Gwen Ansell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-09-28 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the remarkable story of how jazz became a key part of South Africa's struggle in the 20th century, and provides a fascinating overview of the ongoing links between African and American styles of music. Ansell illustrates how jazz occupies a unique place in South African music.Through interviews with hundreds of musicians, she pieces together a vibrant narrative history, bringing to life the early politics of resistance, the atmosphere of illegal performance spaces, the global anti-apartheid influence of Hugh Masakela and Miriam Makeba, as well as the post-apartheid upheavals in the national broadcasting and recording industries.

Music and Identity

Author : Eric Ayisi Akrofi
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1919980857
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Music and Identity written by Eric Ayisi Akrofi and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Due to significant political and social changes over the last decade in their countries and worldwide, many scholars in the Nordic nations and in Southern Africa have been researching on 'music and identity' - an area with a paucity of literature. It is our hope that this book will be beneficial to scholars interested in the field of music and identity. This volume is the result of the Swedish South African Research Network (SSARN) project, funded from 2004-2006 by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa, under the theme 'Music and Identity'. SSARN was founded by Stig-Magnus Thorsén of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in 2002 when he invited Nordic and Southern African scholars to participate in a research group focusing broadly on the topic 'Music and Identity'"--Publisher's website.

The Power of the Word / La puissance du verbe

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401202664
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Power of the Word / La puissance du verbe written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the record of a colloquium held at Churchill College, Cambridge. It pursues lines of discussion radiating out from the core theme of the power of the image (understood in its pictorial, iconic, sensory and verbal senses). Writers, scholars and artists are grouped in pairs representing the two language-cultures (English and French). Central topics covered include the manifold ways in which our readings of pictorial images old and contemporary can bridge cultures, language politics and the politics of culture, the limitless and instructive senses of the concept of the ‘word’, the relation between orality and the written text, the implications of the act of writing, history and opera, the word in theatre, the influence of the Nobel Prize.... The terms of discussion universally urbane, effortlessly wide-ranging and deeply probing. Most importantly – and a reminder of how best to ensure literate wisdom in intercultural debate – is the fact that the contributors gathered here have avoided all ‘pre-packaging’ of their reflections in the shibboleth ‘discourses' (whether Freudian, poststructuralist, postmodern or postcolonial) of our time. Contributors are: Anthony Kwame Appiah, Biyi Bandele, Jacques Chevrier, Tim Cribb, Irène d’Almeida, Casimir d’Angelo, Assia Djebar, Akin Euba, Christiane Fioupou, Lorna Goodison, Wilson Harris, Marika Hedin, Gerard Houghton, Abiola Irele, Anny King, John Kinsella, Henri Lopés, Daniel Maximin, Femi Osofisan, Niyi Osundare, Ato Quayson, Alain Ricard, Tracy Ryan, Julien Sinzogan, Alioune Sow, Wole Soyinka, George Steiner, Véronique Tadjo, Maria Tippett, Olabiyi Yaï

The World of South African Music

Author : Christine Lucia
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443807796
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The World of South African Music written by Christine Lucia and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present Reader is a selection of texts on South African music which are chosen not only for their importance or the frequency of citations, but with the express purpose of providing the reader with a deep understanding of the music itself. Consequently, there are readings that are chosen because they have been influential, but there are also many which, though published, have not enjoyed very wide circulation. There are those which are of obvious historic interest, and others which speak to contemporary issues. Among other things, the volume provides an excellent sense of the varying ideologies and approaches that determine the relationship between author and subject. The reader is indispensable to scholars and enthusiasts of South African music and it is of great interest to ethnomusicologists more generally. It is also an excellent resource for those who do not have immediate access to harder-to-find articles, and is perhaps most vital to those who are looking to find a way into the world of South African music.

Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage

Author : Pathisa Nyathi
Publisher : amabooks
ISBN 13 : 0797445048
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage written by Pathisa Nyathi and published by amabooks. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Zimbabwe's Cultural Heritage won first prize in the Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards in 2006 for Non-fiction: Humanities and Social Sciences. It is a collection of pieces of the culture of the Ndebele, Shona, Tonga, Kalanga, Nambiya, Xhosa and Venda. The book gives the reader an insight into the world view of different peoples, through descriptions of their history and life events such as pregnancy, marriage and death. ""...the most enduring book ever on Zimbabwean history. This book will help people change their attitude towards each other in Zimbabwe."" - Zimbabwe Book Publishers Association Awards citation"

Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe. Volume 1.

Author : Uche Onyebadi
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648894712
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe. Volume 1. written by Uche Onyebadi and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe' uniquely expands the frontiers of political communication by simultaneously focusing on content (political messaging) and platform (music and entertainment). As a compendium of valuable research work, it provides rich insights into the construction of political messages and their dissemination outside of the traditional and mainstream structural, process and behavioral research focus in the discipline. Researchers, teachers, students and other interested parties in political communication, political science, journalism and mass communication, sociology, music, languages, linguistics and the performing arts, communication studies, law and history, will find this book refreshingly handy in their inquiry. Furthermore, this book was conceptualized from a globalist purview and offers readers practical insights into how political messaging through music and entertainment spaces actually work across nation-states, regions and continents. Its authenticity is also further enhanced by the fact that most chapter contributors are scholars who are natives of their areas of study, and who painstakingly situate their work in appropriate historical contexts.

Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives

Author : Marleen Rensen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303045200X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives written by Marleen Rensen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the significance of transnationality for studying and writing the lives of artists. While painters, musicians and writers have long been cast as symbols of their associated nations, recent research is increasingly drawing attention to those aspects of their lives and works that resist or challenge the national framework. The volume showcases different ways of treating transnationality in life writing by and about artists, investigating how the transnational can offer intriguing new insights on artists who straddle different nations and cultures. It further explores ways of adopting transnational perspectives in artists’ biographies in order to deal with experiences of cultural otherness or international influences, and analyses cross-cultural representations of artists in biography and biofiction. Gathering together insights from biographers and scholars with expertise in literature, music and the visual arts, Transnational Perspectives on Artists’ Lives opens up rich avenues for researching transnationality in the cultural domain at large.

Women Marching Into the 21st Century

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Publisher : HSRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780796919663
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Women Marching Into the 21st Century written by and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You strike a woman, you strike a rock. On the 44th anniversary of the women's defiance campaign, this book pays tribute to the many women who have shaped the hsitory of South Africa.

Representing African Music

Author : Kofi Agawu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317794060
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Representing African Music written by Kofi Agawu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to stimulate debate by offering a critique of discourse about African music. Who writes about African music, how, and why? What assumptions and prejudices influence the presentation of ethnographic data? Even the term "African music" suggests there is an agreed-upon meaning, but African music signifies differently to different people. This book also poses the question then, "What is African music?" Agawu offers a new and provocative look at the history of African music scholarship that will resonate with students of ethnomusicology and post-colonial studies. He offers an alternative "Afro-centric" means of understanding African music, and in doing so, illuminates a different mode of creativity beyond the usual provenance of Western criticism. This book will undoubtedly inspire heated debate--and new thinking--among musicologists, cultural theorists, and post-colonial thinkers. Also includes 15 musical examples.