Browsing by Author "Venter, Carina"

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    The influence of early Apartheid intellectualisation on twentieth-century Afrikaans music historiography
    (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12) Venter, Carina; Muller, Stephanus; University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Music.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis attempts to understand questions of our past in the present. It is broadly premised on the assumption of complicity as an interpretive frame in which the relationship between Apartheid intellectualisation and Afrikaans music historiography can be elucidated. Its protagonists are Gerrie Eloff, Geoffrey Cronjé, H.F. Verwoerd, Piet Meyer, Jan Bouws, Rosa Nepgen and Jacques Philip Malan. In each of the four chapters, I attempt to construct metaphors, points of intersection or articulation between Apartheid intellectualisation and Afrikaans music historiography. Music is never entirely absent: for Apartheid ideologues such as Geoffrey Cronjé and Gerrie Eloff musical metaphors become ways of enunciating racial theories, for the Dutch musicologist Jan Bouws music provides entry into South Africa and its discourses, for J.P. Malan music becomes a conduit that could facilitate national goals and for Rosa Nepgen music constitutes the perfect domain for and the gestating impulse of her own often ornate national devotions. Some of the themes addressed in this thesis include the language and metaphors of Apartheid intellectualisation, discourses of paranoia, struggle, purity, contamination, the ‘Afrikanermoeder’ (‘Afrikaner mother’), the cultural language of Afrikaner nationalism and the reciprocity between cultural fecundity and dominance of the land. The final denouement comprises a positing of the Afrikaans art song ‘O Boereplaas’ and the singing soprano Afrikanermoeder who emerges as the keeper of Afrikaner blood purity, guardian of her race and prophet of its fate and future.
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    Die verband tussen vroee apartheidsintellektualisering, Afrikanermusiekhistoriografie en die ontluiking van 'n apartheidsestetika in die toonkuns
    (LitNet, 2011-12) Venter, Carina
    Epistemologiese afhanklikheid van Europese verwysingspunte kenmerk dikwels analitiese modelle van Suid-Afrikaanse kunsmusiek en kunsmusiekhistoriografie. ’n Tipiese voorbeeld is die beskrywing van Stefans Grové se musikale styl aan die hand van sy artistieke aangetrokkenheid tot die werk van J.S. Bach, Olivier Messiaen en Paul Hindemith (Muller en Walton 2006:3). Hierdie soort koestering van estetiese genealogieë wat sigself aanhoudend terugverbeel na Europa, veronderstel die noodwendigheid van ’n Europese paradigma vir Suid-Afrikaanse kunsmusiek. Meer nog: die Grové-voorbeeld illustreer die voortsetting van ’n nasionale program gerig deur sekere propagandistiese idees, die soort ideologiese vertrekpunte wat Afrikaners se “eie” ryk kultuurerfenis verhef tot dié van verligte (Europese) ras in “donker Afrika”. In teenstelling met so ’n Eurosentriese (en problematiese) beskouing poog die teoretisering van Afrikanerkultuur in hierdie artikel om ’n kontekssensitiewe kultuurbegrip van Suid-Afrikaanse kunsmusiek in die 20ste eeu te formuleer. Die interpretatiewe raam wat hier geskep word, put uit ’n konstellasie verwante ideologieë wat krities gelees kan word uit kern historiografiese tekste en geselekteerde primêre dokumente in die argief van die komponis Arnold van Wyk.