Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa最新文献

{"title":"African Rhythms for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and piano","authors":"Ayọ̀ Olúrántí","doi":"10.2989/18121004.2017.1415659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/18121004.2017.1415659","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract African Rhythms approaches composition from an intercultural perspective in that it amalgamates musical elements and processes from African and Western art music cultures. Minimalism co-exists with Western compositional devices with an added aspect of intercultural activity by using orchestral instruments in African percussive ways.","PeriodicalId":41064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa","volume":"78 1","pages":"87 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83580667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Repackaging Igbo folksongs for global acceptance: towards reviving and preserving the musical heritage of a Nigerian community","authors":"A. Nwamara","doi":"10.2989/18121004.2017.1410989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/18121004.2017.1410989","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The entire life of an average Igbo (from cradle to grave) revolves round the arts generally and most especially the musical arts. Many aesthetic features of a wide range of the arts of music, dance and drama fill the lives and environments of Igbo rural communities. As the very essence of culture, folk music forms the basis of people’s tradition and identity. Transmitted orally between generations, it does not necessarily conform to the music of any other culture. However, in some cases it may share common factors, elements or characteristics with those of other ethnic groups around the country. Recent studies have shown that the state of Igbo folksongs in the twenty-first century is not very encouraging. Although a few Igbo musicologists have made arrangements of some of the folksongs, transforming them into art music of some sort, the music has been to a great extent neglected and relegated to the background by the present generation, especially the youth, such that it may eventually become a lost heritage. Unfortunately, many musicologists fail to realise this unhealthy development and consequently do very little or nothing to salvage the situation. This article therefore sets out to draw the attention of Igbo musicologists and all other stakeholders, while highlighting the attempts made so far towards ‘repackaging’ these folksongs for global acceptance and for posterity. Describing these trends holds the potential of creating a better future for the Igbo musical tradition and culture.","PeriodicalId":41064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa","volume":"6 1","pages":"53 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84918286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Aesthetics of funeral performance in Ọka Akoko Ondo State, Nigeria","authors":"H. Oripeloye","doi":"10.2989/18121004.2016.1263912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/18121004.2016.1263912","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper explores the aesthetics of funeral music performance in Oka Akoko, south-west Nigeria, through a discussion of the nature and functionality of this traditional performance. Funeral performance in Oka Akoko combines songs, dance and verbal utterances that share the same principles of excitement, reprobation or censure with other African traditional performances or verbal arts. The songs garnered from the traditional repertoire have been transformed into poetic statements by the performers for the transmission of moral values among the Oka Akoko people. The paper describes the nature, values and the significance of funeral music performance in Oka Akoko. The study is based on field research conducted in this community between 2010 and 2011.The song texts were purposively selected to display some peculiarities of existence among the people so that the performance itself represents the interrogation of the people’s reality about the world around them – its social, cultural and traditional outlook. This suggests that in Oka Akoko funeral music performance many ideas compete for recognition: it historicises a people, defines socio-cultural nuances, conveys invective, praises positive values and condemns negative stereotypes. It allows for fabrication as well as hyperbolic masking. All these ideas constitute the markers of the aesthetic values in funeral performance.","PeriodicalId":41064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa","volume":"10 1","pages":"17 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75169406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities: An Ethnomusicological Perspective","authors":"Alex Smith","doi":"10.2989/18121004.2016.1267946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/18121004.2016.1267946","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa","volume":"448 1","pages":"95 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75083388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reporting on the electronic music festival Unyazi 2016: Infrastructures","authors":"Victoria S Lwebangila","doi":"10.2989/18121004.2016.1267863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/18121004.2016.1267863","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":"127 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90399146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Determining suitable pedagogical approaches to the application of voce chiusa and the zygomatic arch","authors":"Melindie Pretorius","doi":"10.2989/18121004.2016.1263915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/18121004.2016.1263915","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The purpose of this pilot action research study was to document the process of choosing a suitable pedagogical approach that best fits a participant. Three pedagogical approaches as described by Ware were chosen: mechanistic, holistic and eclectic (a combination of mechanistic and holistic). Results indicated that each participant had a different preference for a teaching approach; however, there was a tendency among the participant towards preferring a combined teaching approach. Participants were not consistently fixed in their preference for a certain approach. The researcher had to be adaptable to the learning preference, mood and personality of each participant.","PeriodicalId":41064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":"79 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77176324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Singing actors emerge victorious at the 35th International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition, Cape Town, 25 June to 2 July 2016","authors":"C. Cupido","doi":"10.2989/18121004.2016.1267878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/18121004.2016.1267878","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa","volume":"104 1","pages":"123 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72931392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Music Notation: A South African Guide","authors":"H. Hofmeyr","doi":"10.2989/18121004.2016.1267949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/18121004.2016.1267949","url":null,"abstract":"The sustained attack on music theory and analysis since the 1980s by the selfstyled ‘New Musicology’ has been amply documented (see Agawu 2004, for instance). As an adherent to the tenets of this movement, Christine Lucia has employed one of its primary strategies: a patently generalised misrepresentation of what is considered ‘old’, so as to show the ‘new’ to greatest advantage, to attack the teaching of music theory at South African universities:","PeriodicalId":41064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa","volume":"78 1","pages":"103 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77667022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inaugural International Bow Music Conference 2016 report","authors":"Cara Stacey","doi":"10.2989/18121004.2016.1267874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/18121004.2016.1267874","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa","volume":"24 1","pages":"117 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81635950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Singing the African continent","authors":"R. Sandmeier","doi":"10.2989/18121004.2016.1267930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2989/18121004.2016.1267930","url":null,"abstract":"During the past 18 months students at South African universities have called for free, decolonised and Afrocentric education. While the first part of the call is clear to all, the other two are worth investigating in more detail. What does the call for decolonisation and Afrocentrism mean generally, and what are the implications for tertiary music education or a music journal that carries the term ‘Africa’ in its title and scope? ‘The Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa (JMAA) [...] is an accredited, internationally refereed journal that aims to combine ethnomusicological, musicological, music educational and performance-based research in a unique way to promote the musical arts on the African continent.’ <Aims and Scope> Originally the term decolonisation meant the ‘process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country’ <Decolonization>. The term referred to the political process of gaining independence only. However, it is now being used in a way that conflates this meaning with the ideas of postcolonialism. This term, too, was initially used in a purely political sense to describe ‘the historical period or state of affairs representing the aftermath of Western colonialism’ <Postcolonialism>. However, it ‘can also be used to describe the concurrent project to reclaim and rethink the history and agency of people subordinated under various forms of imperialism’ <Postcolonialism>. During the period following decolonisation ‘previously subjugated individuals sought to assert control over not only territorial boundaries – albeit ones carved out by the imperial powers – but also their language and history’ <Postcolonialism>. This latter meaning is the one the student movement seems to apply to the idea of a decolonised education. A manifesto from the student group Inkqubela active at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town, calls for a ‘deep and continuing discussion on what it means to be a performing arts campus in an African Country’ <Inkqubela 2016:1>. However, the two aspects – political independence and independence of thought, history and culture – are intricately linked, and fall together in the students movement’s idea of an African or national South African identity. Yet at the same time the search for this identity reveals the impossibility of defining what is authentically African or South African, or of going back to this mystical authentic state. Both concepts, that of history and that of identity, are therefore questioned by some postcolonial scholars:","PeriodicalId":41064,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa","volume":"68 1","pages":"viii - x"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89161618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}