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Muziki-Journal of Music Research in Africa Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/18125980.2023.2221065

T. Pooley

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Reflections on Teaching Piano to Young Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders 对自闭症谱系障碍幼儿钢琴教学的思考

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Muziki-Journal of Music Research in Africa Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/18125980.2023.2199458

Nadia Nell, Frelét de Villiers, D. Griessel

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Muziki-Journal of Music Research in Africa Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/18125980.2023.2221066

T. Pooley

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Drumming Tradition among the Xhosa Amagqirha 科萨·阿玛格奇尔哈的鼓乐传统

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Muziki-Journal of Music Research in Africa Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/18125980.2023.2193904

B. Izu, A. D. de Villiers

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Appropriated and Commodified Dance in the Post-2000 Zimbabwe Crisis Period as Represented in Petina Gappah’s “The Mupandawana Dancing Champion” 从Petina Gappah的《Mupandawana舞蹈冠军》看2000年后津巴布韦危机时期舞蹈的挪用和商品化

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Muziki-Journal of Music Research in Africa Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/18125980.2023.2209699

Jairos Gonye

{"title":"Appropriated and Commodified Dance in the Post-2000 Zimbabwe Crisis Period as Represented in Petina Gappah’s “The Mupandawana Dancing Champion”","authors":"Jairos Gonye","doi":"10.1080/18125980.2023.2209699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18125980.2023.2209699","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article I undertake a literary analysis of Petina Gappah’s short story entitled “The Mupandawana Dancing Champion” (2009) focusing on the author’s portrayal of the intersection between the dancing body and political power in post-2000 Zimbabwe’s crisis period. I draw from Michel Foucault’s notion of the docile body to discuss how the politically dominant appropriate and commodify the dancing body of the subordinate for political survival and financial benefit. I argue that Gappah ironically depicts the hypnotic place of kongonya dance among the populace, especially as performed by the pupils from Mupandawana growth point. I further contend that Gappah cynically depicts the transformation of M’dhara Vitalis’s dances from a social entertainment performance into a strictly business transaction. A reading of “The Mupandawana Dancing Champion” is, therefore, useful to appreciate how the ruling political elite appropriate enfeebled ordinary people’s dance and use its influence to maintain their grip on power and their monopoly on business opportunities.","PeriodicalId":42523,"journal":{"name":"Muziki-Journal of Music Research in Africa","volume":"19 1","pages":"3 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60514923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Muziki-Journal of Music Research in Africa Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/18125980.2023.2201472

S. Eze, E. Sylvanus

{"title":"Popular Music, Deviance and Moral Panics in Nigeria: The Music of Naira Marley","authors":"S. Eze, E. Sylvanus","doi":"10.1080/18125980.2023.2201472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18125980.2023.2201472","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper interrogates the issue of deviance and moral panics associated with popular music production in Nigeria. Relying on qualitative and netnographic data, the paper explores contested perspectives on the music of Naira Marley, which is generally laden with censured themes of vulgarity, substance abuse, and loose sexuality. Naira Marley’s music has generated much moral controversy in Nigeria owing mainly to media criticisms, which follow from the bizarre subcultural lifestyles of his fans (i.e., the deviant Marlians) that imitate and idolise him. Although a few texts on Naira Marley exist, none focus on deviance and moral panics. Following debates on and around social reactions to popular music’s subcultural morality, we discuss the politics of nonconformity and anti-establishmentarian music production in Nigeria and contend that while the moral judgement of Marley’s music content is relative, its deviant mannerism is structurally functional. In other words, the music creates moral panics and advocates social change because its seemingly deviant themes resonate with economically disadvantaged Nigerians who patronise it as a form of escapism.","PeriodicalId":42523,"journal":{"name":"Muziki-Journal of Music Research in Africa","volume":"19 1","pages":"25 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46854378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Relationship between Perfectionism, Cognitive Rumination, Mindfulness and Mental Health in Music Students at a South African University 南非某大学音乐系学生完美主义、认知反刍、正念与心理健康的关系

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Muziki-Journal of Music Research in Africa Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125980.2022.2089721

M. Botha, C. Panebianco, A. Masenge

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Muziki-Journal of Music Research in Africa Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125980.2022.2144420

S. Gukurume

{"title":"Youth Popular Music, Waithood and Protest: Zimdancehall Music in Zimbabwe","authors":"S. Gukurume","doi":"10.1080/18125980.2022.2144420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18125980.2022.2144420","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Dancehall music in Zimbabwe has become a very popular genre among urban youth. Since its emergence, this localised music genre has reconfigured urban public culture in complex ways. Drawing on popular musical forms (Zimdancehall), this article examines how urban youth use this musical genre to articulate and express their frustrations, grievances, and everyday existential struggles. This article critiques popular songs and lyrics of selected young Zimdancehall artists to show how their musical discourse can be viewed as alternative discursive spaces of counterhegemonic narratives and a critique of the excesses of the post-colonial state. I argue that Zimdancehall music has become a space where young people simultaneously articulate and navigate their existential frustrations and waithood. While marginalised from mainstream socio-economic and political processes, and detached from the corridors of power, young people use music to speak truth to power. They sing about their anxieties with the socio-economic and political injustices metaphorically and creatively. I assert that through music, young people have found a way of (in)directly addressing the political elites who are complicit in their everyday existential struggles. I argue that Zimdancehall lyrics should be read as ideological texts which articulate a specific type of being and becoming, epitomised by the politics of suffering and smiling.","PeriodicalId":42523,"journal":{"name":"Muziki-Journal of Music Research in Africa","volume":"19 1","pages":"44 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45770879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Asante Court Music and Verbal Arts in Ghana: The Porcupine and the Gold Stool, by Kwasi Ampene 加纳的阿散蒂宫廷音乐和语言艺术:豪猪和金凳子，夸西·安佩尼著

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Muziki-Journal of Music Research in Africa Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125980.2023.2196108

Amos Darkwa Asare

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Making and Remaking Coloured Identities in the Music of Stereo Zen 立体禅宗音乐中彩色身份的制造与再造

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Muziki-Journal of Music Research in Africa Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/18125980.2023.2167734

M. Röntsch

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