- Title
- Review Tamusuza, Justinian and Blake, Michael (2020). Too Late for the Prayers
- Creator
- Fourie, William
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/484420
- Identifier
- vital:78904
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.2989/18121004.2021.2013009"
- Description
- In his contribution to The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, Martin Scherzinger (2004:611) writes that African art music of the 1980s and 1990s reclaimed a 'stake in the making of the world's musical history' by recentring the 'complex intercultural negotiations of sound and meaning' eschewed in Western-centred narratives of music. To a certain extent, this still holds true. Much of the scholarship on African music, and especially on the type of intercultural art music to which Scherzinger refers, has emphasised these negotiations in terms of the larger geopolitical and historical frameworks of colonialism (Agawu 2011) and apartheid (Fourie 2019). What gets lost in these larger framings, however, are the smaller, more mundane negotiations of which world histories are aggregates. The new album, Too Late for the Prayers, by the Ugandan composer Justinian Tamusuza and South African Michael Blake presents us with a powerful reason to look to these minor narratives. The composers offer, through this album, an alternative model for the complex intercultural negotiations of African art music which foregrounds not transnational and state apparatuses, but the moving interpersonal exchanges occasioned by friendship.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (3 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Sabinet
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of the Musical Art in Africa, Fourie, W., 2021. Review Tamusuza, Justinian and Blake, Michael (2020). Too Late for the Prayers. Stellenbosch, South Africa. AOI Edition. AOI CD 02. Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, 18(1), pp.155-157, Journal of the Musical Art in Africa volume 18 number 1 p. 155 2021 2070-626X
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- Closed Access
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