Marie Jorritsma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3485736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marie Jorritsma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Jorritsma |
| SIGNATURE | JORRITSMA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5403-2647 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Towards an eco-literate tertiary music education: Notes from a South African context
On 20 September 2019 in Cape Town, as part of the global protests on inaction on climate change, the African Climate Alliance submitted a memorandum of demands to South African government representatives, one of which was ‘the creation of a mandatory climate-education curriculum for South Africa’. This raises the question of how this imperative would be met within a tertiary music education context. Does the justified insistence on decolonised cu…
Musics of the Free State: Reflections on a musical past, present, and future
(2016). Musics of the Free State: Reflections on a musical past, present, and future. Muziki: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 172-174
Don't Frack with Our Karoo: Water, Landscape, and Congregational Song in Kroonvale, South Africa
There is a new environmental threat to the South African Karoo region in the form of hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") for natural gas reserves buried deep underground. In this article, I use the issue of fracking in the Karoo to investigate the power of this landscape over its people and focus particularly on the question of how the cultural traditions of the Karoo would be affected. In contrast, W.J.T. Mitchell argues that landscape exerts a…
The hidden transcripts of sacred song in a South African coloured community
One of my earliest memories of coloured farm workers is the sound of their hymn singing at Sunday morning church services. In my mind, these sounds became intimately connected with my visits to the Karoo, the name for the semi-desert landscape that surrounds the farming town of Graaff-Reinet. These childhood associations resurfaced when, early one Sunday morning in August 2004, I travelled into Kroonvale (the residential area for coloured people …
Don't Frack with Our Karoo: Water, Landscape, and Congregational Song in Kroonvale, South Africa
There is a new environmental threat to the South African Karoo region in the form of hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") for natural gas reserves buried deep underground. In this article, I use the issue of fracking in the Karoo to investigate the power of this landscape over its people and focus particularly on the question of how the cultural traditions of the Karoo would be affected. In contrast, W.J.T. Mitchell argues that landscape exerts a…
The hidden transcripts of sacred song in a South African coloured community
One of my earliest memories of coloured farm workers is the sound of their hymn singing at Sunday morning church services. In my mind, these sounds became intimately connected with my visits to the Karoo, the name for the semi-desert landscape that surrounds the farming town of Graaff-Reinet. These childhood associations resurfaced when, early one Sunday morning in August 2004, I travelled into Kroonvale (the residential area for coloured people …
Don't Frack with Our Karoo: Water, Landscape, and Congregational Song in Kroonvale, South Africa
There is a new environmental threat to the South African Karoo region in the form of hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") for natural gas reserves buried deep underground. In this article, I use the issue of fracking in the Karoo to investigate the power of this landscape over its people and focus particularly on the question of how the cultural traditions of the Karoo would be affected. In contrast, W.J.T. Mitchell argues that landscape exerts a…
Musics of the Free State: Reflections on a musical past, present, and future
(2016). Musics of the Free State: Reflections on a musical past, present, and future. Muziki: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 172-174
Towards an eco-literate tertiary music education: Notes from a South African context
On 20 September 2019 in Cape Town, as part of the global protests on inaction on climate change, the African Climate Alliance submitted a memorandum of demands to South African government representatives, one of which was ‘the creation of a mandatory climate-education curriculum for South Africa’. This raises the question of how this imperative would be met within a tertiary music education context. Does the justified insistence on decolonised cu…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · South African History and Culture (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Acoustics (1 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 works)