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This review article further explores the nexus between music education and African music / (ethno)musicology that continues the dialogue between the disciplines of musicology and ethnomusicology...
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Susanne Ziegler is an archiver at the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv (Berlin Phonogram Archive), which today belongs to the Ethnologischen Museum. She is well known for her innumerable publications on the...
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Mzilikazi James Khumalo, Emeritus Professor in African Languages at the University of the Witwatersrand, folksong arranger, choral composer, and choir director, was born on the Salvation Army farm...
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This article reports for the first time on a discovery originally made in 1981 in Rundu (Kavango, northern Namibia) and confirmed in 1988 in Sambiu (50 km east of Rundu) of the ruwenge, an indigenous...
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The article begins with a semiotic analysis of the first movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Third String Quartet, Op.30, the purpose of which is to investigate the extent to which order-number...
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South Africa has yet to experience the full effects of the digital music revolution - either ill or benign. But, it is clear that those who do have the necessary technological means to take advantage...
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As a result of enduring patriarchal systems in South African society, it is possible to encounter women in certain communities who are reluctant to speak openly about their gender roles. My initial...
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Maskanda is increasingly being sold and appreciated as 'world music' outside South Africa. Thus, maskanda's narratives, symbols and signs that served the particular purpose of Zulu identity formation...
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This article analyses autobiographical texts written by three formerly exiled South African musicians : Miriam Makeba, Joe Mogotsi, and Hugh Masekela. As oral testimonies, the autobiographies are...
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In the first decade of post-apartheid South Africa archival scholars and practitioners were primarily concerned about two issues : how best to transform the approaches, practices, and contents of...
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Following the format established in SAMUS : South African Music Studies 26/27, volume 28 contains eight articles, a review article, an interview, and a few smaller items. Six of the eight articles...
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Ethnomusicologists and anthropologists of sub-Saharan Africa have long argued that music is securely positioned within specific social contexts : delineating life-cycle stages, political allegiances,...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Obituary : Mary Rörich
Mary obtained her BMus degree at the University of Cape Town and was awarded an open South African Smuts Scholarship to pursue her studies at Cambridge University in England, where she enrolled for the...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Obituary : Niël Geldenhuys
Niël was Professor of Musicology in the Department of Visual Art, Art History and Musicology at the University of South Africa (Unisa). A multi-faceted musician, noted music bibliographer, academician,...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: The 'musical human' and colonial...
John Blacking's most lasting legacy to ethnomusicology has been his view of humanity as inherently musical. He claimed that it is precisely because humans are endowed with 'musical intelligence', they...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: From Johannesburg to Vienna : presenting...
This article critiques the South African field of art music composition and asks how art music composers in South Africa perceive themselves in relation to those fields in Europe. I use the performance...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Focus on Kevin Volans
The landscape within : Kevin Volans and the string quartet. Jill Richards on working with Volans. Volans Chronology. Volans : worklist 1970 - 2009
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: The International Association for the...
The 16th biennial IASPM conference, entitled 'Situating Popular Musics', was held from 27 June to 1 July at Rhodes University, Grahamstown. Loosely organized around the five streams of 'IASPM 30 Years...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Guest editorial
In 2009 the Documentation Centre for Music (DOMUS) at Stellenbosch University applied for and obtained a National Research Foundation KIC Grant to host a morning symposium and lunch in celebration of...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Sonic spaces of the Karoo : The sacred...
South Africans marginalized by colonial powers and the architects of Apartheid have in the past been subjected to inexorable representations and impositions; individuals labeled as coloured in the...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: The Fifth Congress of the South African...
A rainy Grahamstown hosted the Fifth Congress of the South African Society for Research in Music from 23 to 25 June 2011. More than eighty-five delegates were warmly received by SASRIM chair Zelda...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: The piano teaching situation from a...
Most students and lecturers do not realise that aspects such as the environment, the lecturer, the teaching methods and the application of specific learning style models have an influence on students'...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Beethoven : Sonatas for Cello and Piano,...
In 2010, two South African musicians, Peter Martens and Luis Magalhães, released a recording of the sonatas for cello and piano by Ludwig van Beethoven under the 'Two Pianists' label, of which...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: The effect of the Tomatis Method on the...
Features inherent in the training of student pianists may contribute to their psychological vulnerability, especially regarding self-concept and anxiety. Julie Nagel (2009, 15) points out that unlike...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: An intertextual reading of the 'Elegia'...
This article presents a multi-layered intertextual reading of the "Elegia" from Van Wyk's Duo Concertante for viola and piano. The intertexts that "converse with" Van Wyk's piece in this article will...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: 'Never the twain shall meet' :...
Art music composition in South Africa was an increasingly contested artistic and ideological space through the late apartheid period (1980-1994). Rapidly declining institutional and political support...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Music as discipline, solidarity and...
From 1941 to 1947 around 100,000 Italian prisoners of war were held in a number of camps in South Africa (Sani 1992, 299). Captured by Union Defence Force soldiers in North Africa and having suffered...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Tracing tribe : Hugh Tracey and the...
In October 2010, musicians and musicologists gathered at the Origins Centre in Johannesburg to mark the opening of the travelling exhibition, For Future Generations: Hugh Tracey and the International...
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Contributors to this Volume
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: The redoubtable Nofinishi Dywili, uhadi...
The Bow Project, including the project itself and the 2 CD set it produced (Blake 2010), has recently drawn particular attention to the Thembu Xhosa music master Nofinishi Dywili, a village musician...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: AIDS, politics, and music in South...
AIDS, politics, and music in South Africa presents an illuminating account of the social reality of AIDS in post-apartheid South Africa, providing an anthropological perspective on why AIDS...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Editor's note
In 2009 the SASRIM Executive Committee decided to rotate the editorship of SAMUS on an ongoing basis in order to capitalise on the different research networks and expertise available at the country's...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Looking back, looking ahead : the state...
The most pressing questions facing music research in the 'new' South Africa - its health, and the roles it might play in the creation of a post-racial democracy - were the focus of a lively panel at a...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Practice-based research in music :...
This article examines practice-based research and its application in doctoral studies in music. The research reported on here is of particular importance in the context of tertiary studies in music in...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Exiles / inxiles : differing axes of...
In this essay I will discuss two axes of South African jazz as revealed in selected commercial recordings. One axis describes a trajectory over time (from the late apartheid era to the beginnings of...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Bodysuits and biodomes : the...
The aestheticization of space through sound as a mode of negotiating disjuncture is an under-researched phenomenon. In this paper I will discuss such processes as a means through which certain members...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Stylistic traits of South African jazz....
This research views the construction of melodic improvised playing as an extended chain of causal events, which in themselves are interdependent on one another. The author is of the opinion that all...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Vuvuzelas, pop stars and back-up dancers...
When South Africa hosted the Soccer World Cup in 2010, the sound of the vuvuzela dominated proceedings. In this article I consider the vuvuzela as both a symbol and a disruption of existing...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Dominant culture, Afrikaner Nationalism...
In November 1967, a four act opera, Klutaimnestra, by the South African composer Cromwell Everson (1925-1991) was premiered in Worcester, a rural Western Cape town situated northeast of Cape Town....
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Shifting fortunes : jazz in...
In this article I investigate the increasing prestige accorded to jazz in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on Robin Bernstein's (2009) work, I characterise the discourses of Apartheid, the Rainbow...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Editor's note
Sincere thanks to Professor Zelda Potgieter, president of SASRIM 2009-2012, for overseeing the peer review of submissions by my colleagues at Rhodes University.
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Abdullah Ibrahim and the validation of...
The piece 'Mannenberg' by pianist-composer Abdullah Ibrahim is considered by many as South Africa's most iconic jazz tune. Recorded in 1974, it became an instant hit, a 'Friday night' tune to put on...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: On jazz, sociability and symbolic...
In South Africa, one of the most striking features of jazz culture lies, beyond the extension of global musical commodity and performance culture in the formal market and public sphere, in the rich...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Musical Echoes: South African Women...
Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz tells the life story of jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin, a narrative that is interspersed with ethnomusicologist Carol Ann Muller's academic...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: 'Om 'n gifsak te versteek' : 'King...
King Kong: An African Jazz Opera is commonly viewed as an anti-apartheid statement that voiced its discontent through African jazz and other urban black musics, and as a musical statement of 1950s...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: 'Reminiscing in tempo' : the Rainbow and...
The Rainbow club in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa has been in existence for thirty years. In this article I recount some experiences of playing jazz in that venue in the 1980s from a broadly...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Chris McGregor : introduction and interview
This extensive interview with the late, great South African jazz pianist, composer and bandleader Chris McGregor - recorded in 1986 but not previously published - seeks to probe new terrain. Appearing...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Thula Mabota : South African jazz and...
Thula Mabota is Zulu for 'knock down the walls', an appropriate title for this essay on the transformations in South African jazz and popular music since the democratic transition of 1994. The article...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: Working small, acting big : sources of,...
This paper investigates an under-researched dimension of musicology, and specifically jazz scholarship: jazz as a component of a music industry with economic impact and organisational requirements, and...
View ArticleSAMUS : South African Music Studies: '...Chasing the canon...' : opinion piece
Colonization and the legacy of apartheid have resulted in indigenous music practices being submerged under a plethora of hybrid and imported forms of music in South Africa. Although the legitimacy of...
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