Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Music) by Title
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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.
(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 ...