Focus: Music of South Africa

Muller, Carol

doi:10.4324/9780203930632

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“…The South African tertiary music educators in this study each experienced apartheid in different ways, exploring different music and culture. Apartheid was a form of legalized racial discrimination; it ‘was established by a body of laws made by a minority of people of European and British descent in response to their fears of living in a country where the majority of the people were of Black African descent (Muller, 2008, p. 24). In response to apartheid, non-racial education was ‘born out of a conscious effort to transform undemocratic apartheid by replacing it with a democratic, inclusive education ethos founded on a human rights culture’ (Nkomo, Chisholm, & McKinney, 2004, p. 2).…”

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Tertiary educators’ voices in Australia and South Africa: Experiencing and engaging in African music and culture

Joseph

2014

International Journal of Music Education

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Music tertiary educators can foster positive experiences that promote diversity, enhance intercultural and cross-cultural understanding through our teaching. Through findings of interview data of tertiary music educators' understandings of multicultural music practice at two South African universities and at an Australia university, I used interpretative phenomenological analysis to analyse the data. Two major themes emerged: why is it important to teach multicultural music like that of Africa, and what are some of the effective ways of preparing students to best teach it? The data provides insights into an appreciation of and respect for music and cultural diversity. In multicultural societies educators cannot deliver courses based solely on one's own identity and cultural perspective. I argue that music education may be seen as an agent of social change where music teaching and learning can occur through exploring, experiencing, expressing and engaging in the music of our own culture and that of others.

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Tertiary educators’ voices in Australia and South Africa: Experiencing and engaging in African music and culture

Joseph

2014

International Journal of Music Education

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“…Meintjes (2017, pp. 156–7) and Muller (2008, pp. 115–17) go into significantly more analytic detail than Ballantine, but restrict their attention to Juluka's use of ‘Zulu traditional sounds’.…”

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‘Something else is possible’: transcultural collaboration as anti-apartheid activism in the music of Juluka

Mutch

2021

Pop. Mus.

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This article illuminates the musical activism of Juluka, an interracial South African band active in the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. Its analyses of three songs focus on intersections between Western popular music and a Zulu song genre called maskanda. By examining these cross-cultural interactions in the domains of harmonic progressions, formal structures and metric and rhythmic organisation, I demonstrate that the artistic fruitfulness of the band's collaboration was a powerful rebuke to the government's apartheid ideology, which sought to segregate not just people, but even their artistic expressions.

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“…Fargion and Muller note that gumboot dance enabled people to establish personal networks, as it brought people together from the same rural areas (Muller;and Fargion 1999). It was, first and foremost, a method of communication and a sharing of embodied knowledge in extraordinarily difficult living conditions.…”

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Dance and politics: Moving beyond boundaries

Mills¹

2017

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Focus: Music of South Africa

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Tertiary educators’ voices in Australia and South Africa: Experiencing and engaging in African music and culture

Tertiary educators’ voices in Australia and South Africa: Experiencing and engaging in African music and culture

‘Something else is possible’: transcultural collaboration as anti-apartheid activism in the music of Juluka

Dance and politics: Moving beyond boundaries

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