- Title
- Spectral Resistance in Andile Khumalo's Bells Die Out
- Creator
- Fourie, William
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/484438
- Identifier
- vital:78906
- Identifier
- xlink:href="10.1353/pnm.2021.0013"
- Description
- “It was remarked wittily . . . that the black South African award-winner in the “Serious” Music genre had written Central European intellectual music, while one of the white South African award-winners in the Jazz/Popular Music genre had written Zimbabwean folk-music!”—Mzilikazi Khumalo. Perhaps a witticism but certainly a damning statement on the racialized cultural legacy of the apartheid regime, this remark was made in 2002 when composer Andile Khumalo won a number of awards at the Southern African Music Rights Organization’s Overseas Scholarship Competition. The irony offered by the commentator’s locution has to do with the reversal of expectations: a decade after the end of the apartheid regime, under which such an occurrence would have been impossible, it is still striking that a black composer could win prizes for writing Western art music. During the preceding half-century, after all, this music was seen as the “bounteous heritage of the white people,” and artificial racial-cultural demarcations attempted to prohibit composing across the “racial line.” African music was for Africans, the cultural ideology of separate development decreed, and European music was for whites.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (24 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Project MUSE John Hopkins University Press
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Perspectives of New Music, Fourie, W., 2021. Spectral Resistance in Andile Khumalo's Bells Die Out. Perspectives of New Music, 59(2), pp.147-171, Perspectives of New Music volume 59 number 2 p. 147 2021 2325-7180
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