The Music of Mzilikazi Khumalo
Bloomsbury Publishing USA (Verlag)
979-8-7651-1326-4 (ISBN)
Biographical essays on Khumalo’s major works, including those for choir, orchestra, and opera are complemented by contextual studies of his compositions and arrangements as well as reflections on his roles as editor, conductor, and music director. Specifically in the context of South Africa's cultural and political transition from Apartheid to democracy, Khumalo's key role in establishing the Nation Building Massed Choir Festival, a multi-racial institution that forged an inclusive space for music, in the 1980s is discussed as evidence of his importance and relevance in South African culture.
Khumalo's major works are studied in relation to contemporary art music, choral composition, and traditional song. These are UShaka KaSenzangakhona (1996), an African epic, and Princess Magogo KaDinuzulu (2002), one of the first indigenous African operas. Khumalo's artistic collaborators provide insight into their experiences working on these major projects, documenting the relationships the composer cultivated with his peers. This volume addresses a lacuna in the literature on South African art music which until recently tended to focus on works in the classical tradition and shows that Khumalo is a composer without peer in his synthesis of classical and choral, traditional and contemporary.
Thomas M. Pooley is Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Art and Music at the University of South Africa. He has published widely on African art music, and on Zulu music, language and culture. He is Editor-in-Chief of Muziki, Journal of Music Research in Africa and author of The Land is Sung: Zulu Performances and the Politics of Place (2023). Naomi André is the David G. Frey Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, and Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan, USA. Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement, is published by the University of Illinois Press. She is John E. Sawyer Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2022-2023. Innocentia Mhlambi is Associate Professor in the Department of African Languages at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is the author of African-language Literatures: Perspectives on isiZulu Fiction and Popular Television Series, and co-author of Mintiro ya Vulavula: Arts, national identities and democracy in South Africa. Donato Somma is Senior Lecturer and Head of Music at the Wits School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Somma has published on African operas and on music in Italian prisoner of war camps in South Africa.
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Introduction: The Music of J.S. Mzilikazi Khumalo
Thomas Pooley, University of South Africa, Naomi André, UNC Chapel Hill, USA, Innocentia Mhlmabi, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and Donato Somma, Wits School of Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa
1. Ugqozi: A Biography of James Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932 – 2021)
Thomas Pooley, University of South Africa
2. An Interview with Diliza Khumalo
Thomas Pooley, University of South Africa
3. The National Anthem Committee
J.S. Mzilikazi Khumalo (ed. Ludumo Magangane), Composer and Independent Scholar, South Africa
4. Nation Building Massed Choir Festival: Collaboration between Professor J. S. M. Khumalo and Maestro Richard Cock
Richard Cock, Musician and Composer, South Africa
5. The Use of Tonic Sol-Fa Notation by Professor Mzilikazi Khumalo
Ludumo Magangane, Composer and Independent Scholar, South Africa
6. The Music for A Cappella Choir
David Smith, Musician, Liberia
7. The Evolution of UShaka as an African Epic
Robert Maxym, composer and musician
8. Sigiya Ngengoma: Music Dancing History and Politics in UShaka KaSenzangakhona (1996)
Innocentia J. Mhlambi, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
9. The Unique Collaboration Behind the Opera Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu
Sandra de Villiers, Opera Africa
10. The Music of Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu
Megan Quilliam, Independent Scholar, USA
11. 'Walking in Thorns': Nested Contexts in the Creation of Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu
Donato Somma, Wits School of Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa
12. Representing Princess Magogo in the Opera Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu
Kholeka Shange, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Works List of James Stephen Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932-2021)
Thomas Pooley, University of South Africa, Diliza Khumalo, and Nandipha Mnyani, Music Specialist, South Africa
Score: “Ma Ngificwa Ukufa” (1959) by J.S.M. Khumalo. 225
Score: “Izibongo ZikaShaka” (1981) by J.S.M. Khumalo. 226
Bibliography
Discography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.07.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-7651-1326-4 / 9798765113264 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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