In the 1890s, two musicians travelled between Britain and South Africa. One was the first examiner to travel abroad to examine for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, Franklin Taylor. At the same time as Taylor’s arrival in the Cape in 1894, a black South African composer, John Knox Bokwe, prepared to republish a tonic sol-fa hymnal containing many hymns that eventually became popular in Britain, to which Bokwe travelled multiple times. Although these narratives might appear to reflect highly divergent contexts for musical experience, the fluctuating constructions of imperial authority encountered in the careers of both these men link their stories together more deeply than their geographical and cultural disparities set them apart. The synchronous presentation of their stories in this article thus raises questions of how music emerged as a metaphor for constructions of imperial knowledge across shifting cultural boundaries.

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考官和福音传道者：音乐和帝国的权威，c.1894

1890 年代，两位音乐家往返于英国和南非之间。其中一位是第一位出国为皇家音乐学院联合委员会考试的考官富兰克林·泰勒。在泰勒于 1894 年抵达开普敦的同时，南非黑人作曲家约翰·诺克斯·博克维准备重新出版一首包含许多赞美诗的补品 sol-fa 赞美诗，这些赞美诗最终在英国流行起来，博克维多次前往英国。尽管这些叙述似乎反映了音乐经历的高度不同的背景，但在这两个人的职业生涯中，帝国权威的波动建构将他们的故事联系在一起，而不是他们的地理和文化差异将他们分开。