Carol A Muller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3737357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol A Muller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol A |
| FAMILY NAME | Muller |
| SIGNATURE | MULLER C A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why Jazz? South Africa 2019
I consider the current state of jazz in South Africa in response to the formation of the nation-state in the 1990s. I argue that while there is a recurring sense of the precarity of jazz in South Africa as measured by the short lives of jazz venues, there is nevertheless a vibrant jazz culture in which musicians are using their own studios to experiment with new ways of being South African through the freedom of association of people and styles f…
South African Music: A Century of Traditions in Transformation
For students of world music and world cultures, this authoritative handbook provides an in-depth survey of the full spectrum of black and white South African music. What, if anything, is "South African" about the music performed in and by South Africans? This comprehensive handbook answers this question by looking at how South Africans (black and white) have used music to express a sense of place in South Africa, on the African continent, and aro…
Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio
Boosting the bass guitar, blending the vocals, overdubbing percussion while fretting over shoot-outs in the street, grumbling about a producer, teasing a white engineer, challenging an artist to feel his African beat - Sound of Africa! is a riveting account of the production of a mbaqanga album in a state-of-the-art recording studio in Johannesburg. Made popular internationally by Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens, mbaqanga's distinctive style …
Archiving Africanness in Sacred Song
S'appuyant sur des reflexions recentes qui proposent d'etendre la definition conventionnelle de l'archive, de l'archiviste, et du processus d'archivage, l'A. suggere que certains types de composition musicale peuvent etre consideres comme une pratique d'archivage, qui permet la conservation et la recuperation ou le sauvetage de styles et pratiques historiques dans des situations de perte, tant dans des contextes de cultures de l'ecriture ou de l'…
South African Music: A Century of Traditions in Transformation
For students of world music and world cultures, this authoritative handbook provides an in-depth survey of the full spectrum of black and white South African music. What, if anything, is "South African" about the music performed in and by South Africans? This comprehensive handbook answers this question by looking at how South Africans (black and white) have used music to express a sense of place in South Africa, on the African continent, and aro…
Archiving Africanness in Sacred Song
S'appuyant sur des reflexions recentes qui proposent d'etendre la definition conventionnelle de l'archive, de l'archiviste, et du processus d'archivage, l'A. suggere que certains types de composition musicale peuvent etre consideres comme une pratique d'archivage, qui permet la conservation et la recuperation ou le sauvetage de styles et pratiques historiques dans des situations de perte, tant dans des contextes de cultures de l'ecriture ou de l'…
Why Jazz? South Africa 2019
I consider the current state of jazz in South Africa in response to the formation of the nation-state in the 1990s. I argue that while there is a recurring sense of the precarity of jazz in South Africa as measured by the short lives of jazz venues, there is nevertheless a vibrant jazz culture in which musicians are using their own studios to experiment with new ways of being South African through the freedom of association of people and styles f…
Archiving Africanness in Sacred Song
S'appuyant sur des reflexions recentes qui proposent d'etendre la definition conventionnelle de l'archive, de l'archiviste, et du processus d'archivage, l'A. suggere que certains types de composition musicale peuvent etre consideres comme une pratique d'archivage, qui permet la conservation et la recuperation ou le sauvetage de styles et pratiques historiques dans des situations de perte, tant dans des contextes de cultures de l'ecriture ou de l'…
Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio
Boosting the bass guitar, blending the vocals, overdubbing percussion while fretting over shoot-outs in the street, grumbling about a producer, teasing a white engineer, challenging an artist to feel his African beat - Sound of Africa! is a riveting account of the production of a mbaqanga album in a state-of-the-art recording studio in Johannesburg. Made popular internationally by Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens, mbaqanga's distinctive style …
South African Music: A Century of Traditions in Transformation
For students of world music and world cultures, this authoritative handbook provides an in-depth survey of the full spectrum of black and white South African music. What, if anything, is "South African" about the music performed in and by South Africans? This comprehensive handbook answers this question by looking at how South Africans (black and white) have used music to express a sense of place in South Africa, on the African continent, and aro…
Why Jazz? South Africa 2019
I consider the current state of jazz in South Africa in response to the formation of the nation-state in the 1990s. I argue that while there is a recurring sense of the precarity of jazz in South Africa as measured by the short lives of jazz venues, there is nevertheless a vibrant jazz culture in which musicians are using their own studios to experiment with new ways of being South African through the freedom of association of people and styles f…
Art (4 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (4 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · History (2 works) · Studio (2 works) · Acoustics (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · African studies (1 works)