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Afrikaans en Musiek. Kantaantekeninge van iemand wat aan die kant teken
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017-06)Teen die agtergrond van vrae oor die toekoms van Afrikaans stel hierdie artikel vokale musiek as 'n eie "bestaansdomein" van taal aan die orde. Die spesifiek musikale kenmerke van Afrikaans in vergelyking met ander tale ... -
Die verband tussen vroee apartheidsintellektualisering, Afrikanermusiekhistoriografie en die ontluiking van 'n apartheidsestetika in die toonkuns
(LitNet, 2011-12)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 ... -
Seks, ras en boeremusiek : agter die retoriek van gebrekkige sanglus by die 1938-Voortrekkereeufees
(LitNet, 2014-08)In 20ste-eeuse besinnings oor die “kultuuraard” van die Afrikaner word daar meermale melding gemaak van wit Afrikaners se sogenaamde gebrek aan sanglus. In 1938 – die jaar van die Voortrekkereeufees – het hierdie gesprek ... -
Performing the aporias of the archive : towards a future for South African music archives
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2016)National memory is continuously contested in South Africa and archives and museums are often called upon to store objects or material remnants of similarly contested pasts or histories. In addition, these institutions may ... -
Lewe-in-werk : outobiografiek in Arnold van Wyk se musiek
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2008-03)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die artikel handel oor die populêre vraag rakende die konsep van betekenis in die kunsmusiek, meer spesifiek die musiek van die Suid-Afrikaanse komponis Arnold van Wyk (1916-1983). Tydens ’n onderhoud ... -
Tussen Bethlehem en Bloubergstrand : vanaf die oue na die eie in Stefans Grove se oeuvre
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2013-06)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die tradisionele idee van styl in die kunstenaar se produksie volstaan meestal by weinig meer as oppervlak-beskrywings van fasette van die kunswerk. In die musikale konteks kan sulke fasetteneerkom ... -
Musiek en kulturele diversiteit in Suid-Afrika
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2009-12)Hierdie artikel gaan uit van die mening dat die politieke versoening, wat tot die vestiging van demokrasie in Suid-Afrika gelei het, nie gepaardgegaan het met ’n ooreenkomstige en gelykwaardige versoening op die sosiale ... -
Twelve notes, twelve endnotes
(Brendon Bell-Roberts, 2011)"Exile" is always the narrative of one person or entity, an "I" or an "us". Therefore we speak not of "exiles" (the condition, that is), but of "exile". It is not that exile cannot be other than its volatile laws of ... -
Orientalizing Europe, Europeanizaing Africa : the fantastical lives and tale of Jan Gysbert Hugo (The Marquis) (Louis de) (Vere) Bosman di Ravelli, also known as Gian Bonzar
(Department of Musicology, Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, 2010)Before he was being invented by others, or started imagining himself in autobiographical texts, he was creating new names for himself. Born Jan Gysbert Hugo Bosman on 24 February 1882, the first of these names was ... -
Miniature blueprints, spider strategems : a Michael Blake retrospective at 60
(The Musical Times Publications Ltd, 2011)SEVENTEEN YEARS after the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, radical voices in the country are asking the question: to what extent does the South Africa of 2011 display more continuities than discontinuities ... -
'n Blik op die resepsiegeskiedenis van Hendrik Hofmeyr se Sinfonia Africana
(UNISA Press, 2009)Op 19 Augustus 2004 het die Kaapse Filharmoniese Orkes onder Ieiding van die Amerikaanse dirigent Leslie B. Dunner vir die eerste keer Hendrik Hofmeyr se Sinfonia Africana uitgevoer in die Kaapstadse stadsaal. Die simfonie ... -
Music production in the intercultural sphere : challenges and opportunities viewed from a complexity perspective
(SUN MeDIA, 2012)As a South African composer working in a culturally, politically and ecologically heterogeneous environment, I deliberately refer to musical ‘differences’ in many of my works. The artistic vision developed in these works ... -
Wagneriaanse vergestaltings in Etienne Leroux se 18-44
(LitNet, 2013-08)’n Belangrike aspek van Leroux se oeuvre is sy breedvoerige gebruik van ’n wye verwysingsveld, en veral sy invleg van uiteenlopende mitologieë, sielkundige teorieë en literêre bronne binne sy romans. Vanuit ’n musiekwetenskaplike ... -
Indigenisation and history : how opera in South Africa became South African opera
(SUN MeDIA, 2012)In South Africa, the exposure of opera to local cultures and circumstances has in time resulted in a number of opera productions that have departed from Western aesthetic norms and prompted innovations to the genre. These ... -
The systematic development of Wiegand's metalexicography as demonstrated in Kleine Schriften
(Bureau of the WAT, 2002)This review article deals with the contents of the publication Kleine Schriften, a selection of articles written by Herbert Ernst Wiegand and compiled by Matthias Kammerer and Werner Wolski. It purports to illustrate the ... -
Ulrike Rothe. Das einsprachige Worterbuch in seinem soziokulturellen Kon-text : Gesellschaftliche und sprachwissenschaftliche Aspekte in der Lexikogra-phie des Englischen und des Franzosischen
(Bureau of the WAT, 2003)The main title of this work might be a bit misleading, because it creates the impression that a very wide and general topic will be discussed. The subtitle, however, is much more to the point, since the author specifically ...