Diane Thram
Biographic Data
| ID | 304812 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diane Thram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diane |
| FAMILY NAME | Thram |
| SIGNATURE | THRAM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0645-214X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Obituary: Andrew Travers Norman Tracey
Music Archives and Repatriation: Digital Return of Hugh Tracey’s “Chemirocha” Recordings in Kenya
This chapter considers issues in repatriation of digital copies of field recordings of music obtained during the colonial era. It is based on the Hugh Tracey Collection preserved at the International Library of African Music (ILAM). A summary of Tracey’s early life and his work throughout sub-Saharan Africa from 1929 to 1972 is followed by the reasons why, with digital conversion and online access to the Collection accomplished, digital return an…
Luis Gimenez Amoros. Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe
Jazz in Service of the Struggle
This article contributes to the substantial body of publications on South African jazz with information on jazz performance and performers in New Brighton, a township adjacent to Port Elizabeth noted for its vibrant jazz scene and outstanding jazz musicians. The article covers several decades from the heyday of swing bands in the 1940s–50s through the 1960s–70s when New Brighton’s premier jazz combo, the Soul Jazzmen, were at the height of their …
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V olu m e 10, N u m b er
Understanding African music -- Listen and learn: Music made easy -- For future generations: Hugh Tracey and the International Library of African Music -- Generations of jazz -- Music of Africa -- Hist…
Remains of ritual: Northern gods in a southern land
Remains of ritual: northern gods in a southern land, by Steven M. Friedson, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2009, 254 pp., $22.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-226-26505, $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0
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Understanding Music’s Therapeutic Efficacy: Implications for Music Education
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News From Ilam
Cataloguing, conservation through digital conversion, and creation of on-line access to ILAMâ€TMs holdings have been the focus of ILAMâ€TMs projects for the past several years. As a result of these efforts the Hugh Tracey audio recordings and 1,000 images from his photo collection, and ILAMâ€TMs books are searchable on-line via ILAMâ€TMs website. And, back issues of our journal, African Music, are now available from the JSTOR database
TRACKLIST Volume 8 number 3, 2009
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Patriotic history and the politicisation of memory: Manipulation of popular music to re-invent the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe1
This paper investigates how the music nationalism promulgated by the ZANU-PF regime's former Minister of Information and Publicity, Jonathan Moyo, appropriated history and culture in its relentless effort to convince the citizenry that the on-going crisis in Zimbabwe is a continuation of the liberation struggle. It documents how Moyo's propagandised 'patriotic history' was written into song lyrics and used in frequently televised propaganda video…
Therapeutic Efficacy of Music-Making: Neglected Aspect of Human Experience Integral to Performance Process
L'A. examine la relation entre pratique musicale et efficacite therapeutique a partir d'une recherche de terrain realisee dans les annees 1990 avec un groupe de danse et percussion - Mhembere Dandanda - dans la communaute rurale de Murewa au Zimbabwe. Le dandanda est une forme de danse rituelle autochtone pratiquee par les Zezuru (Shona), soit en contexte sacre dans des ceremonies pour les esprits d'ancetres, soit en contexte seculier dans des co…
Patriotic history and the politicisation of memory: Manipulation of popular music to re-invent the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe1
This paper investigates how the music nationalism promulgated by the ZANU-PF regime's former Minister of Information and Publicity, Jonathan Moyo, appropriated history and culture in its relentless effort to convince the citizenry that the on-going crisis in Zimbabwe is a continuation of the liberation struggle. It documents how Moyo's propagandised 'patriotic history' was written into song lyrics and used in frequently televised propaganda video…
Therapeutic Efficacy of Music-Making: Neglected Aspect of Human Experience Integral to Performance Process
L'A. examine la relation entre pratique musicale et efficacite therapeutique a partir d'une recherche de terrain realisee dans les annees 1990 avec un groupe de danse et percussion - Mhembere Dandanda - dans la communaute rurale de Murewa au Zimbabwe. Le dandanda est une forme de danse rituelle autochtone pratiquee par les Zezuru (Shona), soit en contexte sacre dans des ceremonies pour les esprits d'ancetres, soit en contexte seculier dans des co…
Therapeutic Efficacy of Music-Making: Neglected Aspect of Human Experience Integral to Performance Process
L'A. examine la relation entre pratique musicale et efficacite therapeutique a partir d'une recherche de terrain realisee dans les annees 1990 avec un groupe de danse et percussion - Mhembere Dandanda - dans la communaute rurale de Murewa au Zimbabwe. Le dandanda est une forme de danse rituelle autochtone pratiquee par les Zezuru (Shona), soit en contexte sacre dans des ceremonies pour les esprits d'ancetres, soit en contexte seculier dans des co…
Patriotic history and the politicisation of memory: Manipulation of popular music to re-invent the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe1
This paper investigates how the music nationalism promulgated by the ZANU-PF regime's former Minister of Information and Publicity, Jonathan Moyo, appropriated history and culture in its relentless effort to convince the citizenry that the on-going crisis in Zimbabwe is a continuation of the liberation struggle. It documents how Moyo's propagandised 'patriotic history' was written into song lyrics and used in frequently televised propaganda video…
TRACKLIST Volume 8 number 3, 2009
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News From Ilam
Cataloguing, conservation through digital conversion, and creation of on-line access to ILAMâ€TMs holdings have been the focus of ILAMâ€TMs projects for the past several years. As a result of these efforts the Hugh Tracey audio recordings and 1,000 images from his photo collection, and ILAMâ€TMs books are searchable on-line via ILAMâ€TMs website. And, back issues of our journal, African Music, are now available from the JSTOR database
Tracklist
Backmatter
Annual Subscription Rates
Institutional $100.00 + $5.00 shipping and handling 75.00 + 3.00 shipping and handling 55.00 + 2.00 shipping and handling R500
Publications of Ilam
Understanding Music’s Therapeutic Efficacy: Implications for Music Education
Publications of Ilam
Backmatter
Tracklist
Annual Subscription Rates
Remains of ritual: Northern gods in a southern land
Remains of ritual: northern gods in a southern land, by Steven M. Friedson, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2009, 254 pp., $22.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-226-26505, $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0
Annual subscription rates
Institutional $100.00 + $5.00 shipping and handling 75.00 + 3.00 shipping and handling 55.00 + 2.00 shipping and handling R500
Backmatter
Tracklist
Publications of Ilam
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V olu m e 10, N u m b er
Understanding African music -- Listen and learn: Music made easy -- For future generations: Hugh Tracey and the International Library of African Music -- Generations of jazz -- Music of Africa -- Hist…
Jazz in Service of the Struggle
This article contributes to the substantial body of publications on South African jazz with information on jazz performance and performers in New Brighton, a township adjacent to Port Elizabeth noted for its vibrant jazz scene and outstanding jazz musicians. The article covers several decades from the heyday of swing bands in the 1940s–50s through the 1960s–70s when New Brighton’s premier jazz combo, the Soul Jazzmen, were at the height of their …
Music Archives and Repatriation: Digital Return of Hugh Tracey’s “Chemirocha” Recordings in Kenya
This chapter considers issues in repatriation of digital copies of field recordings of music obtained during the colonial era. It is based on the Hugh Tracey Collection preserved at the International Library of African Music (ILAM). A summary of Tracey’s early life and his work throughout sub-Saharan Africa from 1929 to 1972 is followed by the reasons why, with digital conversion and online access to the Collection accomplished, digital return an…
Luis Gimenez Amoros. Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe
Obituary: Andrew Travers Norman Tracey
Computer Science (12 works) · Art (6 works) · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies (6 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (4 works) · Educational Robotics and Engineering (4 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works)