Nishlyn Ramanna
Biographic Data
| ID | 1257348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nishlyn Ramanna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nishlyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramanna |
| SIGNATURE | RAMANNA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Towards an Inclusive Jazz Pedagogy
Women have come to represent around half of the enrolees in South African tertiary jazz programmes, yet remain under-represented in the academy, professional performance, and composition spaces. This mirrors international patterns of exclusion and marginalization in what is now widely known as a hostile environment for women and others who do not conform to patriarchal discourses. Mostly modelled after American programmes, South African tertiary …
Musical Echoes
Contemporary South African Jazz and the Politics of Place
Drawing on popular music scholarship on music and place, as well as interviews with jazz musicians, scholars, and journalists active on the jazz scenes in Durban and Johannesburg, this article considers how locales are perceived to uniquely influence music-making. Extending Bakhtin's notion of “utterance” to music, it argues that the musical character of recent South African jazz subtly registers demographic, political, economic, and environmenta…
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Contemporary South African Jazz and the Politics of Place
Drawing on popular music scholarship on music and place, as well as interviews with jazz musicians, scholars, and journalists active on the jazz scenes in Durban and Johannesburg, this article considers how locales are perceived to uniquely influence music-making. Extending Bakhtin's notion of “utterance” to music, it argues that the musical character of recent South African jazz subtly registers demographic, political, economic, and environmenta…
Musical Echoes
Towards an Inclusive Jazz Pedagogy
Women have come to represent around half of the enrolees in South African tertiary jazz programmes, yet remain under-represented in the academy, professional performance, and composition spaces. This mirrors international patterns of exclusion and marginalization in what is now widely known as a hostile environment for women and others who do not conform to patriarchal discourses. Mostly modelled after American programmes, South African tertiary …
Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Jazz (3 works) · Music History and Culture (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works)