John Knox Bokwe, Colonial Composer
Tales about Race and Music
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4765906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Grant Olwage (0000-0003-4844-3268, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 131 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-37 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Musical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-0403 • E-ISSN: 1471-6933 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jrma/fki010 |
| OpenAlex | W2014299688 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article intervenes in debates on the status of 'race' in ethno/musicological writings. It does so through an examination of the compositional discourse of colonial black South African choral music, particularly detailed analyses of the work of John Knox Bokwe (1855-1922) and their metropolitan sources such as late nineteenth-century gospel hymnody, exploring both how Bokwe's compositional practice enacted a politics that became anticolonial and how early black choral music became 'black' in its receptions. The article concludes that ethno/musicological claims that colonial black choral music contains 'African' musical content conflate race and culture under a double imperative: in the names of a decolonizing politics and a postcolonial epistemology in which hybridity as resistance is racialized
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Theories of Race and Racism
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Colonial Desire
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |