Sylvia Bruinders, Parading Respectability: The Cultural and Moral Aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Authors: McConnachie, Boudina E
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480735 , vital:78471 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v10i4.2247"
- Description: In this book, Sylvia Bruinders, in her clear, articulate writing style intimately shares her personal experiences of, and research into, the Christmas Band Movement in the Western Cape of South Africa. Three interrelated disciplines (as referred to by the musicians themselves), namely, the Christmas Bands, the Malay choirs and the klopse (carnival troupes) take place during the summer months in the Western Cape each year. Although the Christmas band members are Christian and the Malay choirs predominantly Muslim, part of the ancestry of these performers can be traced back to the Southeast Asian slaves brought to the Cape during the rule of the Dutch East India Company. The klopse, influenced by the US blackface minstrelsy, consists of performers from both religious groups and are regarded in a more derogatory manner than the other performance cultures. As all three styles are characterised by a particular ghoema rhythm, Bruinders refers to the phenomenon as the “ghoema musical complex” (2017:2). Documented evidence suggests that Christmas Bands have been in existence since the mid-1800s but Bruinders writes that the 80, or so, bands that perform now emerged during the 1920s and 1930s, coinciding with the two worlds wars. This military influence had a major role in the developing character of the bands and is discussed throughout the book.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: McConnachie, Boudina E
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480735 , vital:78471 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v10i4.2247"
- Description: In this book, Sylvia Bruinders, in her clear, articulate writing style intimately shares her personal experiences of, and research into, the Christmas Band Movement in the Western Cape of South Africa. Three interrelated disciplines (as referred to by the musicians themselves), namely, the Christmas Bands, the Malay choirs and the klopse (carnival troupes) take place during the summer months in the Western Cape each year. Although the Christmas band members are Christian and the Malay choirs predominantly Muslim, part of the ancestry of these performers can be traced back to the Southeast Asian slaves brought to the Cape during the rule of the Dutch East India Company. The klopse, influenced by the US blackface minstrelsy, consists of performers from both religious groups and are regarded in a more derogatory manner than the other performance cultures. As all three styles are characterised by a particular ghoema rhythm, Bruinders refers to the phenomenon as the “ghoema musical complex” (2017:2). Documented evidence suggests that Christmas Bands have been in existence since the mid-1800s but Bruinders writes that the 80, or so, bands that perform now emerged during the 1920s and 1930s, coinciding with the two worlds wars. This military influence had a major role in the developing character of the bands and is discussed throughout the book.
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- Date Issued: 2018
The Changing Faces of Aawambo Musical Arts: A review
- Authors: McConnachie, Boudina E
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480754 , vital:78473 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v10i3.2205"
- Description: One does not often have the opportunity to review a book that one reads with relish from cover to cover. Minnette Mans’ approach to documenting her extensive research on the musical arts of the Aawambo people in Namibia is delightfully intimate and reads like a narrative through which the voices of her co-researchers, Ismael Sam, Shishani Vranckx, Trixie Munyama and Jacques Mushaandja, are expertly woven.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: McConnachie, Boudina E
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480754 , vital:78473 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v10i3.2205"
- Description: One does not often have the opportunity to review a book that one reads with relish from cover to cover. Minnette Mans’ approach to documenting her extensive research on the musical arts of the Aawambo people in Namibia is delightfully intimate and reads like a narrative through which the voices of her co-researchers, Ismael Sam, Shishani Vranckx, Trixie Munyama and Jacques Mushaandja, are expertly woven.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Listen and learn: Music made easy
- McConnachie, Boudina E, Thram, Diane J
- Authors: McConnachie, Boudina E , Thram, Diane J
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480699 , vital:78468 , ISBN 978-0-620-53702-5
- Description: Every now and again a little indigenous gem rises unpretentiously above the South African socio-political-educational landscape and fills me with patriotic pride. Listen and Learn – Music made Easy is one of those down-to-earth examples of what we aspire to in our nationalist rhetoric but seldom understand or achieve. In one deceptively simple little book, Bo McConnachie and collaborators have revealed a hidden path to the heart of so much that occupies our country’s attention – African pride, education, identity, culture, diversity, passion.
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- Date Issued: 2012
- Authors: McConnachie, Boudina E , Thram, Diane J
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480699 , vital:78468 , ISBN 978-0-620-53702-5
- Description: Every now and again a little indigenous gem rises unpretentiously above the South African socio-political-educational landscape and fills me with patriotic pride. Listen and Learn – Music made Easy is one of those down-to-earth examples of what we aspire to in our nationalist rhetoric but seldom understand or achieve. In one deceptively simple little book, Bo McConnachie and collaborators have revealed a hidden path to the heart of so much that occupies our country’s attention – African pride, education, identity, culture, diversity, passion.
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- Date Issued: 2012
Siaka, an African Musician DVD: a review
- Authors: McConnachie, Boudina E
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480725 , vital:78470 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v8i2.1790"
- Description: Selenium Films has released Hugo Zemp’s1 two most recent films about African music, Siaka, an African Musician and An African Brass Band in DVD format. Both were shot in July and August 2002, a few weeks before the outbreak of the civil war in the Cote d’Ivoire and show the country in peaceful times. Siaka (pronounced Shaka) Diabate is a musician from Bouake, the second largest city in the Cote d’Ivoire. With a mixed ancestry, he is not a pure Mande griot but considers himself to be one. He certainly has the musical talent to be recognized as an accomplished musician. This film documents Siaka performing with the “Soungalo Group” led by Soungalo Coulibaly while practicing his various instruments and includes interviews with Siaka and Soungalo regarding Siaka’s musical history.
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- Date Issued: 2008
- Authors: McConnachie, Boudina E
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480725 , vital:78470 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v8i2.1790"
- Description: Selenium Films has released Hugo Zemp’s1 two most recent films about African music, Siaka, an African Musician and An African Brass Band in DVD format. Both were shot in July and August 2002, a few weeks before the outbreak of the civil war in the Cote d’Ivoire and show the country in peaceful times. Siaka (pronounced Shaka) Diabate is a musician from Bouake, the second largest city in the Cote d’Ivoire. With a mixed ancestry, he is not a pure Mande griot but considers himself to be one. He certainly has the musical talent to be recognized as an accomplished musician. This film documents Siaka performing with the “Soungalo Group” led by Soungalo Coulibaly while practicing his various instruments and includes interviews with Siaka and Soungalo regarding Siaka’s musical history.
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- Date Issued: 2008
The Flamboyant Rooster and other Tshivenda Song Stories: A review
- Authors: McConnachie, Boudina E
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/481417 , vital:78549 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v8i2.1788"
- Description: Salungano! Salungano- Here comes a story! Jaco Kruger and Ina le Roux present a beautifully illustrated collection of Tshivenda song stories (Ngano) in a compilation of twenty-seven translated oral narratives from Venda living in the mountainous Soutpansberg region of South Africa. The Nganoare not only entertaining tales which conjure up images of grandmothers and children gathered around evening fires, but are also ancient artistic maps of the human condition that provide a privileged view of human relationships in an African society. Often using animals as metaphoric characters, these stories are reminiscent of The Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling and are a delightful vehicle for imparting important social themes and moral lessons.
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- Date Issued: 2008
- Authors: McConnachie, Boudina E
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/481417 , vital:78549 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v8i2.1788"
- Description: Salungano! Salungano- Here comes a story! Jaco Kruger and Ina le Roux present a beautifully illustrated collection of Tshivenda song stories (Ngano) in a compilation of twenty-seven translated oral narratives from Venda living in the mountainous Soutpansberg region of South Africa. The Nganoare not only entertaining tales which conjure up images of grandmothers and children gathered around evening fires, but are also ancient artistic maps of the human condition that provide a privileged view of human relationships in an African society. Often using animals as metaphoric characters, these stories are reminiscent of The Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling and are a delightful vehicle for imparting important social themes and moral lessons.
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- Date Issued: 2008
Poetry and Languid Charm, 2007
- Authors: McConnachie, Boudina E
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480714 , vital:78469 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v8i1.1707"
- Description: In keeping with its aim for a wide dissemination of the music and information held in its considerable archive, the British Library Sound Archive presents a compilation of Swahili music from Tanzania and Kenya recorded from 1920 to 1950. The name of the compilation - Poetry and languid charm, as explained in the booklet text, is taken from a direct quote from recordist Hugh Tracey’s article “Recording Tour, May to November 1950 East Africa”. published in the African music Society Newsletter. After a particularly successful tour to East Africa in 1950 during which Tracey recorded over 1000 tracks (six of which are included in the compilation), he stated that he was impressed with the musical feeling of the Swahilis and that “Mombasa, like Dar es Salaam, proved to be a place of poetry and languid charm” (Tracey 1951:50)
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: McConnachie, Boudina E
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480714 , vital:78469 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v8i1.1707"
- Description: In keeping with its aim for a wide dissemination of the music and information held in its considerable archive, the British Library Sound Archive presents a compilation of Swahili music from Tanzania and Kenya recorded from 1920 to 1950. The name of the compilation - Poetry and languid charm, as explained in the booklet text, is taken from a direct quote from recordist Hugh Tracey’s article “Recording Tour, May to November 1950 East Africa”. published in the African music Society Newsletter. After a particularly successful tour to East Africa in 1950 during which Tracey recorded over 1000 tracks (six of which are included in the compilation), he stated that he was impressed with the musical feeling of the Swahilis and that “Mombasa, like Dar es Salaam, proved to be a place of poetry and languid charm” (Tracey 1951:50)
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- Date Issued: 2007
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