Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Music) by Title
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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 ... -
Moral and socio-legal dimensions of Surat al-Nur (Chapter 24 of the Qur'an)
(2002)No abstract available. -
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.
(1982)No abstract available. -
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.
(1998)No abstract available. -
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' ... -
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 ...