Something else is possible
Transcultural collaboration as anti-apartheid activism in the music of Juluka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4838129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caleb Mutch (0000-0003-4908-4930, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 450-469 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Popular Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s026114302100043x |
| OpenAlex | W4206013078 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article illuminates the musical activism of Juluka, an interracial South African band active in the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. Its analyses of three songs focus on intersections between Western popular music and a Zulu song genre calledmaskanda. By examining these cross-cultural interactions in the domains of harmonic progressions, formal structures and metric and rhythmic organisation, I demonstrate that the artistic fruitfulness of the band's collaboration was a powerful rebuke to the government's apartheid ideology, which sought to segregate not just people, but even their artistic expressions
Aesthetics · Art · Focus (optics · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Musical · Musical form · Political science · Politics · Popular music · Rhythm · Sociology · Zulu · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · South African History and Culture
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |