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Reading Praise, Protest, and Subversion in Thomas Wasonga's Tawala Kenya Tawala Muziki Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Ernest Patrick Monte
Throughout Kenya's history, patriotic music has created and fostered community, and continues to sensitise people's needs, hopes, aspirations, and fears. Patriotic music is often evident and popula...
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James Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932–2021) Muziki Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Thomas M. Pooley
Published in Muziki: Journal of Music Research in Africa (Vol. 19, No. 2, 2022)
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Appropriated and Commodified Dance in the Post-2000 Zimbabwe Crisis Period as Represented in Petina Gappah’s “The Mupandawana Dancing Champion” Muziki Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Jairos Gonye
Abstract In this article I undertake a literary analysis of Petina Gappah’s short story entitled “The Mupandawana Dancing Champion” (2009) focusing on the author’s portrayal of the intersection between the dancing body and political power in post-2000 Zimbabwe’s crisis period. I draw from Michel Foucault’s notion of the docile body to discuss how the politically dominant appropriate and commodify the
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Popular Music, Deviance and Moral Panics in Nigeria: The Music of Naira Marley Muziki Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Samson Uchenna Eze, Emaeyak Peter Sylvanus
Abstract This paper interrogates the issue of deviance and moral panics associated with popular music production in Nigeria. Relying on qualitative and netnographic data, the paper explores contested perspectives on the music of Naira Marley, which is generally laden with censured themes of vulgarity, substance abuse, and loose sexuality. Naira Marley’s music has generated much moral controversy in
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Drumming Tradition among the Xhosa Amagqirha Muziki Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Benjamin Izu, Alethea de Villiers
Abstract Drumming is an important part of several African communal cultural traditions and is performed during initiation and ritual ceremonies because it is believed that the beat of the drum can evoke the ancestors. This article is based on ongoing ethnographic research into umxhentso traditional dances among the Xhosa people in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape Provinces of South Africa in the context
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Reflections on Teaching Piano to Young Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders Muziki Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Nadia Nell, Frelét de Villiers, David J. Griessel
Abstract It is not possible for professionals, including music teachers, to avoid interacting with and teaching children living with or affected by an autism spectrum disorder, because this condition is prevalent among young learners. Although previous studies have explored the effect of music and music therapy on children with autism, few have studied the practical instruction of teaching a musical
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Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool, by Kwasi Ampene Muziki Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Amos Darkwa Asare
Published in Muziki: Journal of Music Research in Africa (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2022)
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Making and Remaking Coloured Identities in the Music of Stereo Zen Muziki Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Marc Anton Röntsch
Abstract Some scholars have argued that ideas of coloured identities are in flux: being constantly made and re-made. This presentation explores how race can be used as an interpretive lens through which to understand and read the music of Stereo Zen, a funk-rock band based in Cape Town in the mid-2000s. In discussing how Stereo Zen construct and reconstruct their relationship with their coloured identity
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Youth Popular Music, Waithood and Protest: Zimdancehall Music in Zimbabwe Muziki Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Simbarashe Gukurume
Abstract Dancehall music in Zimbabwe has become a very popular genre among urban youth. Since its emergence, this localised music genre has reconfigured urban public culture in complex ways. Drawing on popular musical forms (Zimdancehall), this article examines how urban youth use this musical genre to articulate and express their frustrations, grievances, and everyday existential struggles. This article
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“It Blew My Mind … ”: Using Technology as Conduit to Teach Authentic Kenyan Music to Australian Teacher Education Students Muziki Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Dawn Joseph, David Akombo
Abstract In the light of critical race theory, the authors argue that by engaging in multicultural music through song, students gain cultural and historical understandings of minority groups which may break down barriers that propagate Eurocentrism in music education. In this paper we share our field experience using Zoom videoconferencing as a conduit to access and include music from Africa in initial
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The Relationship between Perfectionism, Cognitive Rumination, Mindfulness and Mental Health in Music Students at a South African University Muziki Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Madaleen Botha, Clorinda Panebianco, Andries Masenge
Abstract The increasing performance and academic demands within the tertiary setting, in conjunction with perfectionistic behaviour and ruminative thinking, may contribute towards mental health difficulties among music students. The current study explored the relationship between perfectionism, rumination, mindfulness and mental health in music students. Using a cross-sectional survey design, 72 university
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Ojú l’ọ̀rọ̀ọ́ wà: The Praise Gaze in Oríkì Performance Muziki Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Aaron Carter-Ényì
Abstract Living traditions of praise-singing are found throughout sub-Saharan Africa, bridging orality, literacy, digital media and the internet. The transcribed text has been the primary focus of scholarship on African oral traditions. Because of the growing number of digital audiovisual recordings available on streaming and social media platforms, it is possible to analyse more modalities of praise-singing
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Psychological Attributes of Primary School Piano Learners Preparing for Regional and National Music Competitions in South Africa Muziki Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Adri van Wyk, Frelét de Villiers
Abstract Music competitions play a role in the musical and holistic development of talented primary school piano learners, especially concerning exposure to stage performances; mastery of challenging repertoire; and dealing with tension and emotions during and after competition participation. This article reports on a study that aimed to address the gap in the literature regarding the handling of psychological
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Rastafari and Reggae Music as Tools for Critical Pedagogy in the African Academe Muziki Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Delali Amuzu
Abstract Reggae music emerged in the 1960s, an era of intense anti-colonial and anti-imperialist sentiments and struggles. Having originated in Jamaica, a jurisdiction where Africans had been enslaved, the genre has a tradition of social criticisms, especially the depravity that asymmetrical power relations extend to Africans globally. Through its Rastafari influences, reggae offers an avenue for redemptive
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The Orchestration of Postcolonial Zimbabwe: The Soundtrack of the Three Zvimurenga and the Present Muziki Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Luis Gimenez Amoros, Kirk Helliker
Abstract In many African countries, music became an essential vehicle of communication and social expression in order to build new postcolonial states. Further, throughout their independence, many African states reconsidered the direction of national culture towards a decolonisation process. As part of the broad subject of decolonial studies, this article offers a critical approach to the relationship
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Gender Representations of Females in Batswana Music: “Cultural” Sexism, Aesthetic Principles and Conflict of Social Values in Musical Performance Costuming Muziki Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Christian Onyeji, Elizabeth Onyeji
Abstract This article discusses the outcome of a study that investigated a Batswana cultural practice in the musical arts through performance costuming for females. The study focused on the musical practice and showed how it could be understood to promote sexism and patriarchal notions. The Batswana people, or Tswana for short, are located in the North West province of South Africa. The discourse in
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“Throw the Money in the Air”: Ideological Rejoinder in Olamide's Omo Abule Sowo Muziki Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Adesina B. Sunday
Abstract This article discusses an analysis that examined how Olamide Adedeji (whose stage name is Olamide), a popular Nigerian hip-hop artiste, uses his album Omo Abule Sowo (Abule Sowo means someone who can literally make money out of anything) as a rejoinder to people's views about him. The objectives of the analysis were to determine the ideologies encapsulated on the album, describe the pragmatic
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The Adaptation and Development of Jiti for Popular Music Performance in Zimbabwe Muziki Pub Date : 2021-09-14 Vimbai Chamisa, Isaac Machafa
Abstract This article outlines an analysis that sought to examine how “early” jiti music has shaped contemporary jiti in Zimbabwe to not only identify aspects that define jiti but also to demonstrate how the style is a historical reality, rooted in the past and generated by the present. To do this, the authors focused on the music of the Bhundu Boys, one of the earliest groups to popularise and influence
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Church Community Music Activities and the Benefits for Participants Muziki Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Alethea de Villiers, Carolyn Rossouw
Abstract Community Music (hereafter CM) exists in many forms, including choral groups, instrumentalists, bands and other ensembles. The literature on community music highlights how participants in different contexts benefit from participating in community music activities. This article reports on a study in which the researchers investigated diverse forms of CM in three church settings in Port Elizabeth
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Close to a Century of Popular Music Practices and Experiences in Nigeria (1922–2020) and a Brief History of Their Socio-political Background Muziki Pub Date : 2021-08-17 Chijioke Ngobili
Abstract For 98 years (1922–2020), the entire corpus of popular music practices and experiences in Nigeria evolved and thrived almost uninterrupted until the great disruption caused when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (COVID-19) a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. Between 1922 and 2020, there have been hazy and unsteady creative attempts
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Contesting Cultural Imperialism: Hybridisation and Re-enactment of Indigenous Cultural Values in Nigerian Hip-Hop Music Muziki Pub Date : 2021-07-19 Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi, Bimbo Lolade Fafowora
Abstract Hybridisation, that is, the blending of different cultural elements to create a new cultural form and identity, has become a significant linguistic feature of hip-hop music in Nigeria. Existing studies have focused largely on the negative roles of hip-hop music describing it as a tool for cultural imperialism and fostering deviant behaviour among youths. However, sparse scholarly attention
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Power, Powerlessness and Radical Protest in Contemporary Cameroonian Popular Music Muziki Pub Date : 2021-07-19 Enongene Mirabeau Sone
Abstract The fraught relationship between popular music and the various kinds of power in Africa has stimulated intensive scholarship and encouraged heated discussions on the topic. Of special interest seems to be the multifaceted character of that interrelationship. It is generally agreed that artistic expression is influenced by political power and that the two mutually inform and shape each other
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Employability Challenges Facing Vocal Art Graduates in South Africa: A Case Study of Tshwane University of Technology Muziki Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Sakhiseni Joseph Yende, George Mugovhani
Abstract Unemployment has emerged as a global phenomenon that brutally affects young people, irrespective of whether they have academic qualifications, but is more prevalent and predominant in semi-peripheral and peripheral countries. Like graduates from other emerging countries, South African graduates are experiencing unemployment. The issue of unemployment in the performing arts industry has become
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“Siyahamba”: The Origins and Significance of a South African Chorus Muziki Pub Date : 2021-05-25 Boris Gorelik
Abstract Despite the enduring international popularity of the Zulu Christian chorus “Siyahamba” as a song of protest and praise, South African ethnomusicologists have not yet investigated its origins as well as its cultural and political significance. This article reports the results of an historical study which indicated that the earliest documented performance of the chorus took place in Dundee in
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Revitalising the Traditional Use of the Kudu Horn by the Bakwena of Botswana Muziki Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Otukile S. Phibion, Fana Rabatoko
Abstract This article reports on research that was conducted among the Bakwena at the Molepolole main Kgotla (Tribal Administration Centre or traditional law court) as the chief’s place is known in Setswana (the Tswana language spoken in Botswana) in the Kweneng District of Botswana. The researchers were motivated by the information they gathered during their annual ethnomusicology class excursions
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Exploring the Efficacy of Deliberate Practice and Memorisation Skills in the Process of Learning Debussy’s L’Isle joyeuse: A Practice-Led Study Muziki Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Hester Rhoodie, Simon-Petrus du Toit
Abstract In a practice-led study, the authors explored the process followed by classical pianists when learning new repertoire at an advanced level. The study drew on accounts by professional pianists and pedagogues, as well as on case studies of the learning process in musicians. Further, the study drew on literature about practice and memorisation. It incorporated the second author’s own documented
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Mapping Places and Identities through Contemporary Bulawayo Popular Song Texts Muziki Pub Date : 2021-05-25 Nkululeko Sibanda, Nozizwe Dhlamini
Abstract In this article, the authors examine the symbiotic relationship that exists between places and identities in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, through contemporary song texts. They borrow Julia Kristeva’s concept of intertextuality to trace the sources of spatial textual referents embedded in song texts and examine the ways in which they inform the emergence and consolidation of identities. Through analysing
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Appreciating, (Re)-Thinking and Diversifying Arts Education: Learning to Be a Choral Conductor/ Trainer/Director/Educator in Kenya Muziki Pub Date : 2021-04-20 Mukasa S. Wafula
Abstract The tremendous growth of choral music in Kenya over the last 50 years has largely been realised in three major establishments, namely: the Church, institutions of learning, and political arenas. Whereas choral music presents a field that can draw from diverse inquiries, the article focuses on music education as a component of choral music. It is motivated by the concern that the majority of
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Revitalising the Traditional Use of the Kudu Horn by the Bakwena of Botswana Muziki Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Otukile S. Phibion, Fana Rabatoko
Abstract This article reports on research that was conducted among the Bakwena at the Molepolole main Kgotla (Tribal Administration Centre or traditional law court) as the chief’s place is known in Setswana (the Tswana language spoken in Botswana) in the Kweneng District of Botswana. The researchers were motivated by the information they gathered during their annual ethnomusicology class excursions
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Namadu Drum Music and Dance as Mediation of Healing Rituals among the Bagwere People of Uganda Muziki Pub Date : 2021-03-18 James Isabirye
Abstract This article reports on a study that investigated the namadu healing ritual of the Bagwere people of Uganda. The ritual involves drumming, singing and dancing, as well as sacrificing chicks, birds and animals towards gaining spiritual, emotional and physical healing of afflicted clan members. This music and dance mediated ritual is no longer commonly performed in African indigenous communities
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“It Is More Than Just about Music”: Lifelong Learning, Social Interaction and Connection Muziki Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Dawn Joseph, René Human
Abstract For older people, participating in leisure activities enhances their sense of social, emotional, mental, spiritual and psychological wellbeing. This article reports on a case study that situated itself across two southern hemisphere countries – Australia and South Africa – and with two ensembles, namely: an instrumental ensemble in Melbourne (all musical readers); and a vocal ensemble in Clarens
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Sikeyi: In Memoriam – Johnny Clegg (1953–2019) Muziki Pub Date : 2021-03-18 Thomas M. Pooley
(2020). Sikeyi: In Memoriam – Johnny Clegg (1953–2019) Muziki: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 131-136.
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In Pursuit of Recognition and the Expression of Power? Making Sense of Vulgarity in Zimdancehall Muziki Pub Date : 2021-03-04 Blessed Parwaringira, Phillip Mpofu
Abstract While there are many refined musical productions, Zimdancehall is epitomised by the use of explicit vulgar lyrics. This article attempts to make sense of vulgarity in the musical genre against the knowledge that, although vulgarity is obnoxious in the public sphere, it is functional in specific contexts among the Shona people of Zimbabwe. Deploying a theoretical gaze that is grounded in concepts
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“Mdhara Vachauya” (The Old Man Is Coming) and “Kutonga Kwaro” (His/Her Style of Governance): Analysing Jah Prayzah’s Music in Zimbabwe’s Tumultuous Political Context Muziki Pub Date : 2020-11-22 Ezra Chitando, Obert B. Mlambo
Abstract Music has never been politically neutral; rather, it is composed and performed in definite historical, social, political and economic contexts. Furthermore, musical lyrics often carry open or hidden political messages. The interpretation of musical texts has thus often generated contestation in different contexts. This article examines the appropriation and contested interpretation of two
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Learning Collectively in a South African High School Choir Community of Musical Practice through Dalcroze-Inspired Activities Muziki Pub Date : 2020-09-29 Melindie Pretorius, Liesl van der Merwe
Abstract The purpose of this case study was to explore the extent to which Dalcroze-inspired activities can facilitate collective learning in a choir as a community of musical practice (CoMP). The research intervention was conducted in a newly formed multi-ethnic high school choir in Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa. Data sources included in-depth semi-structured interviews, researcher field notes
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Death and Ubuntu in Oliver Mtukudzi's Music Muziki Pub Date : 2020-09-14 Colin Chasi, Cuthbeth Tagwirei
Abstract The musical lyrics of the late Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi (1952–2019), by focusing on social-cultural values and practices, are an unexplored but valuable resource for the purpose of thinking about ubuntu and death. In this article, the authors put forward a nuanced examination of the corpus of Tuku's music on death that reveals multiple, inconsistent, contradictory and interrelated insights into
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“The Times Do Not Permit”: Moerane, South Africa, Lesotho, and Fatše La Heso Muziki Pub Date : 2020-07-17 Christine Lucia
Abstract The symphonic poem Fatše La Heso (My Country) was composed in 1941 by Michael Mosoeu Moerane (1904–1980) as a requirement for completing a BMus degree curriculum through Rhodes University College, which in those days was a satellite campus of the University of South Africa (Unisa). This article argues that both the writing of this work and its subsequent reception history have been adversely
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Abàmì Èdá: Personhood and Socio-political Commitment in Fela's Music Muziki Pub Date : 2020-07-13 Olajide Michael Salawu
Abstract Nigerian Afrobeat musician, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, is a political maverick not only because of the depth of his musical oeuvre, but also because, as a human rights activist, his personhood unreservedly engages the tempered socio- political space of Nigeria's post-independence phase. Fela's artistic commitment emanates from the genre Afrobeat through which he entrenched his musical ideology of
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Framing Subalternity, Precarity and Poverty in Selected Songs by Leonard Zhakata Muziki Pub Date : 2020-07-13 Leonard Chitongo, Josiah Taru
Abstract This article examines the ways in which poverty is portrayed in selected songs composed and performed by Leonard Karikoga Zhakata. Zhakata is renowned for his songs that depict the deprivation, failed governance, greediness, and everyday hardships that most Zimbabweans experience in postcolonial Zimbabwe. In this article, we situate media framing theory within the processes that inform people's
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Moyo wa Mtauni: Imagining the City in Malawian Popular Music Muziki Pub Date : 2020-07-13 Syned Mthatiwa, Emmanuel Ngwira
Abstract Cities in Africa and beyond have been sites of conflicting and contradictory associations in human cultures from their very beginning. Some regard the African city as a place of hope and fulfilment, freedom and opportunity, while others view it as an emblem of cultural decay and a nexus of corruption, perversion, greed, destruction and death. In this article we explore these ambivalent attitudes
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A Study of Igbo Folk Songs, by Richard C. Okafor Muziki Pub Date : 2020-06-10 Chijioke Ngobili
(2019). A Study of Igbo Folk Songs, by Richard C. Okafor. Muziki: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 126-129.
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The Street Ideology: Sexual Contours in Nigerian Hip-Hop Music Muziki Pub Date : 2020-04-09 Adeola Ojoawo
Abstract Nigerian hip-hop thrives on open discussion of sex and sexuality. Although it is generally viewed as unacceptable to engage in uninhibited sexual discussion or behaviour in Nigeria, especially where females are concerned, Nigerian female hip-hop artistes freely indulge in blatant sex-talk and overt sexual display in their music and videos. This study examines sexual ideologies in the lyrics
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Sex Sells: Sexual Metaphors in Selected Nigerian Hip-Hop Music Muziki Pub Date : 2020-03-17 Adeola Ojoawo, Akinmade Akande
Abstract “Sex sells” is a thriving trend in the hip-hop world which certainly applies to contemporary Nigerian hip-hop music, despite the Nigerian socio-cultural restriction. Studies of Nigerian hip-hop music have focused on the effects of sexual content, with a few focused on the strategies used in the discussion of sexual themes. Fewer studies, however, have examined metaphors of sex and body parts
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The Influence of Foundation Phase Male Teachers on Their Learners: A Musical Perspective Muziki Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Eurika Naomi Jansen van Vuuren
Abstract The influence of male teachers on Foundation Phase learners needs to be explored to allow for subtle adjustment of programmes in higher education to empower them in a previously female world. When an unusually high entry of male students in a BEd Foundation Phase programme was experienced, adaptations had to be made to the music module to make provision for a tendency to sing in harmony rather
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The Socio-religious Significance of Songs Performed during Apo Festival at Bono Takyiman, Ghana Muziki Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Kofi Poku Quan-Baffour
Abstract The identity of any ethnic group is portrayed through cultural practices and traditions. The Bono of Takyiman in Ghana celebrate their annual Apo festival in April. The week-long festival celebration reaches its climax on the 8th day, which is a Friday. The festival was constituted by King Amoyaw Akumfi I, one of the founders of the Bono State around the 15th century AD. The king’s advisors
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John Heavyside's Manual of Psalmody for Public Worship of 1839: South Africa's First Anglican Collection of Metrical Psalms and Hymns Muziki Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Andrew-John Bethke
Abstract This article examines and contextualises John Heavyside's Manual of Psalmody for Public Worship (hereafter simply referred to as the Manual). It was published in 1839 in Grahamstown which, at the time, was in the Cape Colony. The Manual is the earliest South African Anglican collection of metrical psalms and hymns from the era. The article seeks to demonstrate that the Manual's editor clearly
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Challenges Faced by the Soweto Theatre Music Tuition Programme 2013–2016: A Case Study of a Youth Music Development Programme Muziki Pub Date : 2019-01-02 A. David Nkosi
Abstract Since 1994, the Pro Musica Theatre has run community music youth development projects which provide tuition in several wind and string instruments to previously disadvantaged youth from Soweto. Due to financial challenges experienced in 2009 caused by reduced funding, the Pro Musica Theatre decided to operate mainly as a receiving house of productions from outside. As a result of this situation
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Let the Music Bands Rock! Live Entertainment at Midlands State University Main Campus Muziki Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Wonder Maguraushe
Abstract The potential of music to positively influence humans’ well-being has punctuated people’s lives from birth to death. This article explores the state of live music entertainment at Midlands State University main campus in Senga, Gweru. I set out to find out what entertainment opportunities are available for MSU students. Through questionnaires, interviews and focus group discussions, the study
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Editorial Muziki Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Marc Duby
Welcome to the first issue of 2019, and once again let me confirm that my Unisa colleague Dr Thomas Pooley will be joining me as co-editor from this year on. It’s a great pleasure to welcome him on board and I look forward to our collaboration for the immediate future. In addition, allow me to welcome and introduce the new (and returning) board members for 2019 onwards as follows: Prof Innocentia Mhlambi
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Drop Everything and Sing the Music: Choristers’ Perceptions of the Value of Participating in a Multicultural South African University Choir Muziki Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Michael Barrett, Dorette Vermeulen
Abstract This case study explored the perceptions of choristers singing in a multicultural university choir in South Africa and the personal value they associate with their choir participation. Data were collected through semi-structured individual interviews, focus groups, and a four-month period of observations of choir rehearsals and performances. This research highlights the multidimensional experiences
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A Scoping Review of Exercise Intervention for Playing- Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (PRMDs) among Musicians Muziki Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Adedayo Tunde Ajidahun, Hellen Myezwa, Witness Mudzi, Wendy-Ann Wood
Abstract Exercise-based programmes have been used successfully in the prevention of musculoskeletal problems in sport and among performing artists. However, the components and the implementation protocol of the exercise programmes vary but the main focus is on managing the presenting symptoms of the musician. The aim of this study was to explore evidence concerning the components of exercise-based
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Towards a Precise Calculation of the Total Intended Duration of Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VII for Solo Oboe Muziki Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Olivier Paul Hal Barrier, Clorinda Panebianco
Abstract The score of Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VII for solo oboe exhibits a strict and definite temporal space, yet most performers do not manage to perform the work within the prescribed time. The score is presented as a matrix with thirteen lines and columns and each line undergoes a temporal compression. The impetus of this practitioner-based study was driven by a need to find a method of performing
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Lagos: Music and the Postcolonial Metropolis Muziki Pub Date : 2018-07-03 Stephen Olabanji Boluwaduro
Abstract Popular art remains a magnetic force that appeals to both high- and low-profile people from all walks of life and from diverse climes and creeds. This paper scrutinises the symbiotic relationship between music, a form of popular art, and Lagos, Nigeria’s urban entertainment hub. In extending the frontiers of empirical inquiry, the study also appraises the mode of give-and-take by which music