Conference  programme

Social and cultural

programme

 

 

 

Programmes

Conference  programme

 

Preliminary Programme:

 

Wednesday 14 July

Thursday 15 July

Friday 16 July

Saturday 17 July

Wednesday 14 July

08:00 - 09:00 Registration (8-9am)
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome session (Opening address by Prof. Arnold van Zyl)
09:30 - 10:00 The Archive as a Performative space: The Early years on black radio broadcasts in South Africa, circa 1940-1944. Thokozani Mhlambi Ngoma yaVaShona: The source of inspiration and spiritual power for the Shona people of Zimbabwe. Perminus Matiure
10:00 - 10:30 Jewishness and Music in South Africa: The Hans Kramer Collection in the National Library, Cape Town. Annemie Stimie The significance of some music-instrument-building trees in Venda culture: A case study of Mbilamutondo music. George Mugovhani.
10:30 - 11:00

TEA/COFFEE

11:00 - 11:30 Senzeni na: interrelationships between the music of mission and Independent African church denominations. Marie Jorritsma Countering Media Hegemony: Encounters at the World Festival of Sacred Music, Fez. George King
11:30 - 12:00 Making Sound of the Empire Indigenous: Music in Zion Christian Church, South Africa. Vít Zdrálek South African church music: a process of claiming and reclaiming. Gerrit Jordaan
12:00 - 12:30 Missionary Influence on the Xhosa singing styles in the Presbyterian Church in Alice District. Jonathan Ncozana  
12:30 -14:00

LUNCH

14:00 - 14:30

Panel: Community Music.
Ncebakazi Mnukwana, Belinda Jackson, Andile Siyo, Pamela Kierman, Felicia Lesch, Adriaan Brand

14:30 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:00

TEA/COFFEE

16:00 - 16:30

Keynote speaker: Ryland Fisher on Community music

16:30 - 17:00
18:00 - 20:00 Jamboree (including light snacks)

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Thursday 15 July

08:30 - 09:00 Whose music? Mimicry, the metonymic gap and Mozart in Africa. Zelda Potgieter
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote speaker: Daniel-Ben Pienaar
10:00 - 10:30 TEA/COFFEE
10:30 - 12:00

Panel: Counter-hegemonic Strategies in Music Analysis.
Hannes Taljaard, Janelize van der Merwe, Jaco Meyer, Neil Barnard, Catrien Mulder, Riana Lundie

12:00 - 13:30

LUNCH

13:30 - 14:00

Who is playing with identities? Postcolonial awareness in the context of maskanda performance. Barbara Titus

The post-hegemonic/post-apartheid South African university music department: a fait accompli or a work-in-progress? Alvin Petersen
14:00 - 14:30 Afrikaans after hegemony? “Afrikaaps” and the sounding of new musical subjectivities. Brett Pyper The road to multicultural music making, teaching and learning: Some lessons from the Zimbabwe College of Music. Claudio Chipendo
14:30 - 15:00 Reflections of the Freedom Songs of Xhosa Women. Carolyn Burns  
15:00 - 15:30 TEA/COFFEE
15:30 - 16:30

SASRIM AGM

16:30 - 17:00
18:00 - 20:00  
20:00 - 21:30

Daniel-Ben Pienaar concert:

     J.S. Bach:  Partita no. 6 BWV 830

     Chopin: Polonaise-Fantasy Op. 61

     Franz Schubert:  Sonata D959

 

Before the concert wine tasting will be offered by Lanzerac.

Tickets:

     R70

     R40 (Students and pensioners)

     Conference delegates: included in conference fee

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Friday 16 July

08:30 - 09:00 After universalisms: music as a medium for intercultural translation. Martina Viljoen Place, Space and ‘Grain’: Our Mimi, a voice for (Apartheid) South Africa. Carina Venter
09:00 - 09:30 Mourning Hegemony: hearing Arnold van Wyk’s String Quartet as an Echo of Empire. Matildie Thom Wium Viva Verdi, tradition at Cape Town Opera. Hilde Roos
09:30 - 10:00 Cromwell Everson’s Klutaimnestra. Jeff Brukman Hegemonic discourse and early representations of post-colonial sensibilities: Spontini’s historical opera “Fernand Cortès”. Maria Birbili
10:00 - 10:30 TEA/COFFEE
10:30 - 11:00

Panel: Composers.

Jonathan Eato, Zim Ngqawana, Tete Mbambisa, Louis Moholo

11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:30 LUNCH
1:30 - 14:00

A Liebestod with China’s founding father. Eastern empires within western reception: a case study. Emile Wennekes

A German Abroad: Richard Strauss in London 1897-1947. Raymond Holden
14:00 - 14:30 African Musicology in China: A Bibliographical Survey of Chinese Literature. Xiaoqiang Shawn Gong Echoes of Empire: Music as Vice in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace. Natasje van der Westhuizen
14:30 - 15:00 Versions, Subversions: Evolution of music as interaction between competing hegemonies. Roy Indranil The Censored Symbol – the IMS and the ISCM 1936 in Barcelona. Bernhard Bleibinger
15:00 - 15:30 TEA/COFFEE
15:30 - 16:30 Panel: Music and Exile.
JP de la Porte, Mokale Koapeng, Stephanus Muller, Crain Soudien, Cara Stacey, Federico Settler
16:30 - 17:00
18:00 - 20:00    
20:00 - 21:30    

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Saturday 17 July

08:30 - 09:00

Modernity with Roots and Fragrance: Chris McGregor’s late Brotherhood of Breath compositions. Jonathan Eato

09:00 - 09:30 Rap music of the Eastern Cape in the global empire of hip-hop and outside the totalizing regime of contemporary South Africa. Lee William Watkins
09:30 - 10:00 The Riches of Embarrassment: On Traversing Hegemonies. Willemien Froneman
09:30 - 10:00

TEA/COFFEE

10:00 - 10:30

Panel: State of the Discipline. Chris Ballantine, Lindelwa Dalamba, Sazi Dlamini, Winfried Lüdemann, Zelda Potgieter, Nishlyn Ramanna, Carina Venter

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:30 Closing

 

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Social and cultural

programme

 

 

Wednesday 14 July

20:00 - 21:30

Jamboree (including light snacks)

Thursday 15 July

Daniel-Ben Pienaar concert:

     J.S. Bach:  Partita no. 6 BWV 830

     Chopin: Polonaise-Fantasy Op. 61

     Franz Schubert:  Sonata D959

 

Before the concert wine tasting will be offered by Lanzerac.

Tickets:

     R70

     R40 (Students and pensioners)

     Conference delegates: included in conference fee