Sounding a New African Diaspora: A South African Story (1958–1978)

Muller, Carol

doi:10.1080/17533171.2012.716722

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“…52 Black consciousness inspired another way of thinking about sonic expression, utilizing composition in specific ways to respond to issues of blackness. 53 In exile, they formed the ensemble Jabula, which became an instrument of organizing the exiled African National Congress. 54 During the same period, a particularly important landmark recording was Ibrahim's album Mannenberg, a record that became synonymous with South African jazz all around the world.…”

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Jazz in Postcolonial South Africa: Tracing the Politics of “Formal” and “Informal”

Makhathini¹

2021

Jazz and Culture

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American jazz came to South Africa during the era of segregation through records imported from America, which first reached our shores in the early 1920s. Interacting with these records, South Africans developed their own identities and sounds under the umbrella of American-born "jazz." In the 1980s, this orally and informally transmitted knowledge was formalized into a jazz studies curriculum. The first degree and certificate program in jazz was initiated in 1983 by American pianist Darius Brubeck at the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN), previously known as University of Natal, in Durban. The model of jazz teaching he introduced (as it grew over time) resembled that of the American stalwart institution, the Berklee School College of Music. The program at UKZN later influenced institutions in many other provinces such the

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Jazz in Postcolonial South Africa: Tracing the Politics of “Formal” and “Informal”

Makhathini¹

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Sounding a New African Diaspora: A South African Story (1958–1978)

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Jazz in Postcolonial South Africa: Tracing the Politics of “Formal” and “Informal”

Jazz in Postcolonial South Africa: Tracing the Politics of “Formal” and “Informal”

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