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A Composer in Africa
0R300,00Stefans Grove (*1922), regarded by many as Africas greatest living composer, possesses one of the most distinctive compositional voices of our time. He studied in Cape Town under Erik Chisholm before becoming the first South African to be awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.
He took his Masters at Harvard under Walter Piston, attended Aaron Coplands composition class at the Tanglewood Summer School, and subsequently taught for over a decade at the renowned Peabody Institute in Baltimore before returning to his African roots in the early 1970s.
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Music and Identity
0R380,00‘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 Thorsan 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.
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On Record
0R0,00Popular Afrikaans music artists have done well in post-apartheid South Africa and enjoy the enthusiastic support of loyal fans. This support is fuelled by a complex set of emotions linked to “e;being Afrikaans”e; in a culturally pluralistic society. In On Record, van der Merwe investigates the interplay between popular music and the unfolding of Afrikaans culture politics from the start of the twentieth century to the present. It includes a search for the earliest recorded Afrikaans songs and documents subsequent phases of music development that reflect the agency of ordinary individuals – artists and listeners – against a background of fundamental societal and political change. It regards both the music mainstream and the alternative, and reveals, among other things, historical cases of compliance and resistance regarding the master narrative of Afrikaner nationalist ideology, the attempts by cultural entrepreneurs to establish authority over popular Afrikaans culture, class tension, lasting racial exclusivity, protest and censorship, and the post-apartheid invocation of Afrikaner nostalgia and white victimhood. Ultimately, On Record provides an uninterrupted account, and a critique, of the entire history of recorded popular Afrikaans music up to the present.
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Plate en Politiek
0R345,00Populere Afrikaanse musiekkunstenaars het sover goed gedoen in post’apartheid Suid-Afrika en geniet die entoesiastiese ondersteuning van lojale volgelinge. Hierdie ondersteuning word aangevuur deur ‘n komplekse stel emosies wat verband hou daarmee om Afrikaans te wees in ‘n kultureel pluralistiese samelewing. In Plate en Politiek ondersoek Van der Merwe die interaksie tussen populere musiek en die ontvouing van ‘n Afrikaanse kultuurpolitiek vanaf die begin van die twintigste eeu tot die hede. Dit sluit ‘n soektog in na die eerste opgeneemde Afrikaanse liedere en dokumenteer die daaropvolgende fases van musiekontwikkeling wat die agentskap van ordinere mense – kunstenaar en luisteraar – weerspieel teen die agtergrond van fundamentele sosiale en politieke verandering. Dit besin oor beide die musiekhoofstroom en meer alternatiewe musiek, en ontbloot onder andere, historiese voorbeelde van die akkommodering van, en verset teen, die meesternarratief van die Afrikanernasionalistiese ideologie, pogings van kulturele entrepreneurs om beheer uit te oefen oor populere Afrikaanse kultuur, klassespanning, blywende rasse-eksklusiwiteit, protes en sensuur, en die post’apartheid oproeping van Afrikaner nostalgie en wit slagofferskap. Uiteindelik bied Plate en Politiek ‘n on-onderbroke weergawe van, en ‘n kritiese blik op, meer as ‘n eeu van opgeneemde Afrikaanse musiek.
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Plate en Politiek
0R435,00Populore Afrikaanse musiekkunstenaars het sover goed gedoen in post?apartheid Suid-Afrika en geniet die entoesiastiese ondersteuning van lojale volgelinge. Hierdie ondersteuning word aangevuur deur ‘n komplekse stel emosies wat verband hou daarmee ?om Afrikaans te wees? in ‘n kultureel pluralistiese samelewing. In Plate en Politiek ondersoek Van der Merwe die interaksie tussen populore musiek en die ontvouing van ‘n Afrikaanse kultuurpolitiek vanaf die begin van die twintigste eeu tot die hede. Dit sluit ‘n soektog in na die eerste opgeneemde Afrikaanse liedere en dokumenteer die daaropvolgende fases van musiekontwikkeling wat die agentskap van ordinore mense ? kunstenaar en luisteraar ? weerspieal teen die agtergrond van fundamentele sosiale en politieke verandering. Dit besin oor beide die musiekhoofstroom en meer alternatiewe musiek, en ontbloot onder andere, historiese voorbeelde van die akkommodering van, en verset teen, die meesternarratief van die Afrikanernasionalistiese ideologie, pogingsvan kulturele entrepreneurs om beheer uit te oefen oor populore Afrikaanse kultuur, klassespanning, blywende rasse-eksklusiwiteit, protes en sensuur, en die post?apartheid oproeping van Afrikaner nostalgie en wit slagofferskap. Uiteindelik bied Plate en Politiek ‘n on-onderbroke weergawe van, en ‘n kritiese blik op, meer as ‘n eeu van opgeneemde Afrikaanse musiek.
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Song in Gold Pavilions
0R240,00There is an undeniable fascination in reading the words that composers write. Whenever a composer puts finger to typewriter rather than pencil to manuscript paper, we inevitably hope that he might proffer us some insights into the workings of the creative musical mind ? that source of much mystery since the act of composition left the realm of low artisanship for that of High Art some two or three centuries ago. Composers who deal with words as naturally as they write notes are, however, a breed of exceeding rarity. Ronald Stevenson belongs amongst them and the proof of it is to be found amply in this book.
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The Journey to the South
0R235,00EThe Journey to the South grapples with the entanglement of ethics, aesthetics, disciplinary transformation, institutional decolonisation and modalities of protest at South African universities. Riffing on Herman HesseOs short novel Die Morgenlandfahrt (Journey to the East), Stephanus MullerOs parable is systematically misunderstood in five different but overlapping critiques by the scholars Doctor Werner Ansbach, Proffessore Parvenu, Doctor Christian Grippenkerl, Professor Doctor Finkel Fenkel and an anarchic colloquium of shit-stirrers. Throughout the book, the art of Manfred Zylla celebrates the delirium of protest, fascist nightmares and geese in concert halls.
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The Journey to the South
0R295,00EThe Journey to the South grapples with the entanglement of ethics, aesthetics, disciplinary transformation, institutional decolonisation and modalities of protest at South African universities. Riffing on Herman HesseOs short novel Die Morgenlandfahrt (Journey to the East), Stephanus MullerOs parable is systematically misunderstood in five different but overlapping critiques by the scholars Doctor Werner Ansbach, Proffessore Parvenu, Doctor Christian Grippenkerl, Professor Doctor Finkel Fenkel and an anarchic colloquium of shit-stirrers. Throughout the book, the art of Manfred Zylla celebrates the delirium of protest, fascist nightmares and geese in concert halls.
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