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This article addresses a South African music genre: maskanda, often marketed as “Zulu blues.” It describes the various ways maskanda is musically analyzed and interpreted by musicians, audiences, producers, and scholars, including myself.
- Mario Maxwell Muller
Ethnomusicology, the Music Canon, and African Music: Positions, Tensions, and Resolutions in the African Academy Jean Ngoya Kidula African music entered serious scholarship through disci-plines such as ethnomusicology. While scholars in African music have contributed significantly to the development of theories and methods of culture, the ...
Sep 1, 2014 · Framed within the Sociomusicology Theory, this article argued that through the revival of Khoisan indigenous music, South Africa can promote social cohesion, bridging gaps between different...
It is a discourse of African Musicology and Culture within a South African Context. genres are associated with particular ethnic identities, for example Maskanda with Zuluness. This work shows various South African popular music construct ethnic identities.
Sep 1, 2014 · Specifically, the study aimed to highlight the inadequacies of canonised (ethno)musicological methodologies. Participative observations, including dipoledišano (interviews), were used to...
The Ethnomusicology specialisation programme in the Odeion School of Music aims to nurture students into becoming game-changing cultural entrepreneurs, engaged citizens, and critical thinkers whose expertise and skills would be locally and globally relevant, particularly in the current dispensation.
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Music is often the means used to contact the supernatural world and a sign in the natural world that such contact has occurred. African (page 48) p. 48 and African-derived spirit-possession ceremonies provide some of the clearest examples.
