Hearing Maskanda

Musical Epistemologies in South Africa

Professor Barbara Titus (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7780-8 (ISBN)

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Hearing Maskanda outlines how people make sense of their world through practicing and hearing maskanda music in South Africa. Having emerged in response to the experience of forced labour migration in the early 20th century, maskanda continues to straddle a wide range of cultural and musical universes. Maskanda musicians reground ideas, (hi)stories, norms, speech and beliefs that have been uprooted in centuries of colonial and apartheid rule by using specific musical textures, vocalities and idioms.

With an autoethnographic approach of how she came to understand and participate in maskanda, Titus indicates some instances where her acts of knowledge formation confronted, bridged or invaded those of other maskanda participants. Thus, the book not only aims to demonstrate the epistemic importance of music and aurality but also the performative and creative dimension of academic epistemic approaches such as ethnography, historiography and music analysis, that aim towards conceptualization and (visual) representation. In doing so, the book unearths the colonialist potential of knowledge formation at large and disrupts modes of thinking and (academic) research that are globally normative.

Barbara Titus is Associate Professor of Cultural Musicology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and focuses her research on South African street music (maskanda). She is the author of Recognizing Music as an Art Form (2016).

Preface
Introduction – Foregrounding Aural Experiences
Part I – Maskanda in Colonial, Apartheid and Post-Apartheid South Africa
1. Maskanda’s Colonial, Apartheid and Post-Apartheid Presence
2. Foregroundings of Maskanda’s Styles and Substyles
Part II – Maskanda as a Discourse of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa
3. Ground Level: The Kushikisha Imbokodo Festival in Durban
4. Middle Level: The MTN Onkweni Royal Festival in Ulundi
5. Up Level: Shiyani Ngcobo’s Tour through the Netherlands
Part III – Hearing Maskanda
6. Knowing Zuluness Aurally
7. At Home in the World
8. Sharing Aural Space
Conclusion: Maskanda Epistemology
Appendix: Song Lyrics
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2021
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5013-7780-9 / 1501377809
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-7780-8 / 9781501377808
Zustand	Neuware