Cape Town Harmonies

by Gaulier, Armelle

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Title Statements

Full title :Cape Town Harmonies.

Summary

Cape Town?s public cultures can only be fully appreciated through recognition of its deep and diverse soundscape. We have to listen to what has made and makes a city. The ear is an integral part of the ?research tools? one needs to get a sense of any city. We have to listen to the sounds that made and make the expansive ?mother city?. Various of its constituent parts sound different from each other ? [T]here is the sound of the singing men and their choirs (?teams? they are called) in preparation for the longstanding annual Malay choral competitions. The lyrics from the various repertoires they perform are hardly ever written down. [?] There are texts of the hallowed ?Dutch songs? but these do not circulate easily and widely. Researchers dream of finding lyrics from decades ago, not to mention a few generations ago ? back to the early 19th century. This work by Denis Constant Martin and Armelle Gaulier provides us with a very useful selection of these songs. More than that, it is a critical sociological reflection of the place of these songs and their performers in the context that have given rise to them and sustains their relevance. It is a necessary work and is a very important scholarly intervention about a rather neglected aspect of the history and present production of music in the city.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):African Minds
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1928331513, 9781928331513
oclc:on1090474943
LC Classification:ML355.S68
Dewey Decimal:306.48420968

Part one. Memory and processes of musical appropriation. -- 1. Music behind the music : appropriation as the engine of creation -- 2. In the footsteps of the future : musical memory and reconciliation in South Africa -- part two. Nederlandsliedjies and notions of blending -- 3. The nederlandsliedjies' "uniqueness" -- 4. The meanings of blending -- part three. Moppies : humour and survival -- 5. Assembling comic songs -- 6. Behind the comic -- Conclusion : memory, resilience, identity and creolisation.

Subjects

Choral societies Choral societies -- South Africa Chorales -- Afrique du Sud Criticism, interpretation, etc Ménestrels -- Afrique du Sud Minstrels Minstrels -- South Africa Music -- Social aspects Music -- Social aspects -- South Africa Musique -- Aspect social -- Afrique du … Ressources Internet South Africa -- Cape Town