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The Times Do Not Permit
This biography of Michael Mosoeu Moerane (1904-1980) surveys the unique life, times and music of the first classically educated African composer in southern Africa.
Fritz Hart
Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874–1949) stands as one of the more astonishing figures of the so-called English Musical Renaissance. This long-overdue biographical study explores and assesses the substantial and lasting contributions he made to the musical life of England, Australia and Hawai’i. As Tregear and Forbes have richly documented, Hart was a charismatic, and extraordinarily productive, composer, conductor, educator and institutional leader whose life-journey in music throws new light on the aesthetic concerns of early twentieth-century imperial Britain and how they were received and refracted at that empire’s farthest extent.
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Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives
This compilation was inspired by an international symposium held on the Legon campus in September 2003. Hosted by the CODESRIA African Humanities Institute Programme, the symposium had the theme 'Canonical Works and Continuing Innovation in African Arts & Humanities'.
Song Walking
Song Walking explores the politics of land, its position in memories, and its foundation in changing land-use practices in western Maputaland, a borderland region situated at the juncture of South Africa, Mozambique, and Swaziland. Angela Impey investigates contrasting accounts of this little-known geopolitical triangle, offsetting textual histories with the memories of a group of elderly women whose songs and everyday practices narrativize a century of borderland dynamics. Drawing evidence from women’s walking songs (amaculo manihamba)—once performed while traversing vast distances to the accompaniment of the European mouth-harp (isitweletwele)—she uncovers the manifold impacts of int...
