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Indigenous African music (IAM) performance assessment: an exploration of the role of teachers during the grade 12 external practical examination.
(2022)Since the introduction of the outcomes-based education in 1997 that overcame the curricular divisions of the past, Indigenous African Music (IAM) has finally attained a seat in the national music Curriculum and Assessment ... -
Towards a jazz education programme for the senior secondary schools in South Africa.
(1997)Abstract available in PDF. -
Local music and identity: a study of the signifiers of South African identity embedded in the South African Music Awards’ ‘Record of the Year’ listings from 2013 to 2018.
(2020)This research paper explores the concept of a local identity through the gaze of a postapartheid South Africa. In discussing ‘local’, this study explores pertinent discourse surrounding what could be deemed as the South ... -
Music composition in the 21st Century: exploring concertgoers’ aesthetic response to AI-generated music.
(2021)We live in the information age where digitisation and computational technology have become integral and indispensable to our daily activities. Artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and other such technologies ... -
The role of chingondo/chimaisiri dance on makasva and humwe rite in the Zimunya communal area, Zimbabwe.
(2020)The study seeks to investigate the role of Chimaisiri (a spiritual hunting dance) on Makasva (rain making) and Humwe (a celebratory harvest ritual) in the Zimunya communal area of Zimbabwe. The study also seeks to explore ... -
Ghanaian palmwine music: revitalizing a tradition and maintaining a community.
(2020)This doctoral thesis examines the tradition of Ghanaian palmwine music, exploring strategies for its revitalization and sustenance. Framed within the context of applied ethnomusicology and through the theoretical lens ... -
Raiding genres, remaking contemporary South African jazz discourse: the study of choices and ideals behind my compositional portfolio.
(2019)This thesis is presented as an autoethnography that documents the process of composing a portfolio of works that are identifiable as Jazz. Autoethnography is understood here as both a theory and a method. While my personal ... -
A study on the creative processes of Ngalanga traditional music and dance from Mozambique: expressions of the Mozambican Chopi immigrant community of Clermont Township in Durban.
(2018)This study is an ethnographic enquiry on the creative processes engaged in ngalanga by a migrant community of Mozambicans in Clermont Township in Durban. It discusses how creative actions are conceived and applied to ... -
Towards a personal interpretation of Beethoven’s piano sonata in E major OP.109.
This study analyses some of the intersections between the activities of an instinctive performing artist with those of a traditional musicologist. This is in line with a growing worldwide trend which views the examination ... -
Postcolonial nostalgia and meaning: new perspectives on contemporary South African writings.
(2019)This dissertation explores the concept and application of nostalgia in a selection of contemporary South African novels chosen as representative of the multi-cultural diversity of South Africa’s literature. The study ... -
The Harmonic Perspective of Rhythm: applications for the expansion of musical awareness and the acquisition of rhythmically complex music.
(2017)This study describes and evaluates a new paradigm for informed rhythmic practice: the harmonic perspective of rhythm. Normal, theoretically driven or written rhythmic conceptions have tended to rely on a limited grid based ... -
The influences of Christianity and commerce on the culture of popular gospel music in post-apartheid South Africa.
(2017)Gospel music is the biggest genre of popular music in South Africa. This popularity can be attributed to various elements that are an integral part of the diverse South African democratic society. As a developing country ... -
Evaluating Shona liturgical music in localised practices of inculturation within the Catholic Mass in Zimbabwe.
This study evaluates practices of inculturation in the composition and performance of Shona liturgical music for the Catholic Mass in the parishes of St Theresa Seke and Glen Norah-Budiriro, which are both located in Harare, ... -
Archiving the cultural legacy of mbira dzavadzimu in the context of kuriva guva and dandaro practices.
(2013)This thesis focuses on archiving cultural legacy of Shona mbira dzaVadzimu in the context of kurova guva and dandaro practices. The study is informed by archive theory which provides insights on how to collect and archive ... -
An ethnography on the uses of chinyambera traditional dance as a coping mechanism by marginalised communities in Gweru Zimbabwe : the case of Tavirima Traditional Dance Group.
(2013)This dissertation is an ethnographic expository of how Tavirima Traditional Dance Group uses chinyambera traditional dance as a copying mechanism for marginalised communities in Gweru, Zimbabwe. This study contextualises ... -
Areas of remote music collaboration on the Internet : exploring constraints and possibilities through four case studies.
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The re-emergence of Amahubo song styles and ideas in some modern Zulu musical styles.
(1992)Amahubo songs are at the centre of the traditional Zulu cultural, religious and political lives. Their age is often associated with the very "beginning" of things, when the very first Zulu people emerged from the bed ... -
Jazz travels : a portfolio of jazz compositions and arrangements of African inspiration.
(2010)The pieces presented in this portfolio are in some ways a synthesis of my own musical history up to this point in time. Though I was scarcely aware as a child, I now know that the diverse strains of modem African American ... -
Writing against exile : a chronotopic reading of the autobiographies of Miriam Makeba, Joe Mogotsi, and Hugh Masekela.
(2006)This dissertation analyses the autobiographies of Miriam Makeba, Joe Mogotsi and Hugh Masekela. The story of these formerly exiled musicians' lives as musicians who embodied the urbanising and eclectic black musical ethos ...
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