Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Music) by Title
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Frederic Chopin : gender as a factor in reception.
(2004)Frederic Chopin's contemporaries took note of his preference for a piano with a light escapement. They commented that his method of playing was light in touch, and that his demeanor on stage contrasted strongly with that ... -
From the ladder to the mountain : Arnold Schoenberg's religious odyssey.
(1998)The study traces Arnold Schoenberg's spiritual journey as he moves from his oratorio Die Jakobsleiter, through his nonmusical drama Der biblische Weg to the opera Moses und Aron. These works span the years from approximately ... -
Generic style music preferences of urban South African students.
(2000)The purpose of this exploratory study was to measure the music preferences of South African, junior secondary students and to find out what variables had an influence on their music preference decisions. LeBlanc's (1982) ... -
Hippies, radicals and sounds of silence : cultural dialectics at two South African universities, 1966-1976.
(2010)This study explores the impact of the counter culture on students at two Anglophone universities in the 1960s and 70s. It focuses on the social and historical differences that predisposed English speaking youth to metropolitan ... -
Indian South African popular music, the broadcast media, and the record industry, 1920-1983.
(1999)This thesis is an historiographical and sociological study of Indian South African broadcasting and the music industry between 1924 and 1983. A multilevel approach which integrates empirical and cultural materialist ... -
Jazz as discourse : a contextualised account of contemporary jazz in post-apartheid Durban and Johannesburg.
(2005)This study offers an ethnographically contextualised close reading of the music played by three 'jazz' groups in eight concerts held in Durban and Johannesburg between June 1994 and December 2003. These performances were ... -
Mhande dance in kurova guva and mutoro rituals : an efficacious and symbolic enactment of Karanga epistemology.
(2011)This thesis is an ethnography of mhande dance as a dynamic phenomenon that enunciates Karanga belief and normative values that are enacted through performance of mhande dance in its chief indigenous contexts: the kurova ... -
Muziki wa Injili : the temporal and spatial aesthetics of popular church music in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (1980s-2005)
(2006)This study is concerned with popular church music in Dar es Salaam and with changes in this music in relation to the concepts of temporality and spatiality. In part one, I argue that temporal change is experienced by ... -
Namibian music and dance as ngoma in arts education.
(1997)The aim of this thesis is to explore Namibian music and dance, to gain understanding of the character of different practices and through this, to provide teachers and learners in schools with materials suitable for use ... -
Orchestral music was the music of the working class : Indian popular music, performance practices and identity among Indian South Africans in Durban, 1930-1970.
(1999)During the mid-1930s, a tradition of music-making which drew its repertoire almost exclusively from the music of Indian films began among Indian South African ensembles in and around the city of Durban. This dissertation ... -
Oriental traits in Liam de Noraidh's collection of Irish folk melodies : a particular instance of a general cultural condition.
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The ratiep art form of South African muslims.
(1993)The ratiep is a peculiarly South African trance-linked art form characterised by stabbings with sharp objects to the arms and other bodily parts, the piercing of the ear-lobes, the cheeks and the tongue by alwaan (skewers), ... -
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 ... -
Representations of musical scrapers : the disjuncture between simple and complex in the study of a percussion instrument.
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The South African Blue Notes : bebop, mbaqanga, apartheid and the exiling of a musical imagination.
(2010)During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the exiling from South Africa of jazz musicians, including The Blue Notes, brought the discourses of local jazz, its performance culture and repertoires, to international ... -
South African choral music (Amakwaya) : song, contest and the formation of identity.
(2002)Amakwaya refers to the tradition and performance practice of choirs in South Africa that emerged from the mission-schools in the nineteenth century and is manifest today in the annual competitions held by various Teachers' ...