Browsing by Author "Meyer, Karin"

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    An analysis of articles on classical music in the SABC Bulletin
    (2015-12) Meyer, Karin; Ludemann, Winfried; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Music.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The history of broadcasting in South Africa involves the political, cultural, intellectual, technological, and social aspects of the history of South Africa. The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), as South Africa‟s first public broadcaster, played an important role in both these histories. It is therefore important to gain a deeper understanding of the SABC throughout South Africa's history. The SABC has been the subject of much recent research – from its programming and programme content to censorship and the political role it played during the apartheid era. An aspect of the SABC's activities that seems not to have been studied yet is the publications of the SABC, including the SABC Bulletin. The SABC Bulletin was published weekly from 1961 to 1973, and was used to advertise and promote the contents of the forthcoming week's broadcasts. A study of articles on classical music in this publication may enrich and inform current understandings of the SABC and its role during the apartheid era. These articles illustrate the prominent role that the SABC played in the establishment and promotion of local classical music, both in respect of composers and performers. Through these articles on classical music and the subsequent classical music broadcast on the SABC radio stations, the SABC provided a forum or public platform for the work of these local musicians. Providing such exposure to musicians of a high calibre may also have served the purpose of setting a benchmark for the quality of local classical music to be composed and performed. It is argued that a degree of contradiction existed between these music Stellenbosch programmes and the articles in which they were discussed on the one side and the overt political agenda on the other. Taking note of these contradictions will allow for a more nuanced understanding of the SABC before 1994. These articles represent an important source for the historiography of classical music in South Africa. They provide interesting insights into the classical music landscape of South Africa during the years 1961 to 1973, and detail classical music events which may be worthy of remembering. It is thus suggested that these articles could enrich our understanding of classical music and its role at the SABC and in South Africa during the years of their publication.
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    You get angry inside yourself : low-income adolescent subjective experience of depression
    (Stellenbosch University, Department of Social Work, 2015) Meyer, Karin; Kruger, Lou-Marie
    Informed by the feminist social constructionist approach this study aimed at exploring the subjective experiences of depression of low-income South African adolescent girls. Participants in this study (girls between the ages of 12 and 14) live in a semi-rural low-income coloured community in the Western Cape. Participants were familiar with the concept of depression, but it seemed that for them the central emotion associated with depression was anger, which often manifested in destructive behaviours. Furthermore, participants seemed to construct depression as a relational problem, suggesting that psychotherapy may be indicated as an important intervention strategy.