White writers and Shaka Zulu
- Authors: Wylie, Dan
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Shaka, Zulu Chief, 1787?-1828 In literature Shaka, Zulu Chief, 1787?-1828 Zulu (African people) -- History
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2233 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002276
- Description: The figure of Shaka (c. 1780-1828) looms massively in the historical and symbolic landscapes of Southern Africa. He has been unquestioningly credited, in varying degrees, with creating the Zulu nation, murderous bloodlust, and military genius, so launching waves of violence across the subcontinent (the "mfecane"). The empirical evidence for this is slight and controversial. More importantly, however, Shaka has attained a mythical reputation on which not only Zulu self-conceptions, but to a significant degree white settler self-identifications have been built. This study describes as comprehensively as possible the genealogy of white Shakan literature, including eyewitness accounts, histories, fictions and poetry. The study argues that the vast majority of these works are characterised by a high degree of incestuous borrowing from one another, and by processes of mythologising catering primarily to the social-psychological needs of the writers. So coherent is this genealogy that the formation of an idealised notion of settler identity can be discerned, especially through the common use of particular textual "gestures". At the same time, while conforming largely to unquestioning modes of discourse such as popularised history and romance fiction, individual writers have attempted to adjust to socio-political circumstances; this study includes four close studies of individual texts. Such close stylistic attention serves to underline the textually-constructed nature of both the figure of Shaka and the "selves" of the writers. The study makes no attempt to reduce its explorations to a single Grand Unified Explanation, and takes eclectic theoretical positions, but it does seek throughout to explore the social-psychological meanings of textual productions of Shaka - in short, to explore the question, Why have white writers written about Shaka in these particular ways?
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- Date Issued: 1996
- Authors: Wylie, Dan
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Shaka, Zulu Chief, 1787?-1828 In literature Shaka, Zulu Chief, 1787?-1828 Zulu (African people) -- History
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2233 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002276
- Description: The figure of Shaka (c. 1780-1828) looms massively in the historical and symbolic landscapes of Southern Africa. He has been unquestioningly credited, in varying degrees, with creating the Zulu nation, murderous bloodlust, and military genius, so launching waves of violence across the subcontinent (the "mfecane"). The empirical evidence for this is slight and controversial. More importantly, however, Shaka has attained a mythical reputation on which not only Zulu self-conceptions, but to a significant degree white settler self-identifications have been built. This study describes as comprehensively as possible the genealogy of white Shakan literature, including eyewitness accounts, histories, fictions and poetry. The study argues that the vast majority of these works are characterised by a high degree of incestuous borrowing from one another, and by processes of mythologising catering primarily to the social-psychological needs of the writers. So coherent is this genealogy that the formation of an idealised notion of settler identity can be discerned, especially through the common use of particular textual "gestures". At the same time, while conforming largely to unquestioning modes of discourse such as popularised history and romance fiction, individual writers have attempted to adjust to socio-political circumstances; this study includes four close studies of individual texts. Such close stylistic attention serves to underline the textually-constructed nature of both the figure of Shaka and the "selves" of the writers. The study makes no attempt to reduce its explorations to a single Grand Unified Explanation, and takes eclectic theoretical positions, but it does seek throughout to explore the social-psychological meanings of textual productions of Shaka - in short, to explore the question, Why have white writers written about Shaka in these particular ways?
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- Date Issued: 1996
Ya jiliza
- Ngqoko music ensemble participants, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Ngqoko music ensemble participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Alice sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/342175 , vital:62863 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC338b-11
- Description: Ngqoko music ensemble accompanied by clapping, ugubu and umasengwane
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1996
- Authors: Ngqoko music ensemble participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Alice sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/342175 , vital:62863 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC338b-11
- Description: Ngqoko music ensemble accompanied by clapping, ugubu and umasengwane
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1996
Yaka Yaka Ndemka
- Hogsback festival participants, Somu, N., Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Hogsback festival participants , Somu, N. , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Hogsback sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345827 , vital:63322 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC348b-02
- Description: Xhosa music at Hogsback festival
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1996
- Authors: Hogsback festival participants , Somu, N. , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Hogsback sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345827 , vital:63322 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC348b-02
- Description: Xhosa music at Hogsback festival
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1996
Yaka Yaka Ndemka
- Hogsback festival participants, Nomeva, N., Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Hogsback festival participants , Nomeva, N. , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Hogsback sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345803 , vital:63316 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC348a-08
- Description: Xhosa music at Hogsback festival
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1996
- Authors: Hogsback festival participants , Nomeva, N. , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Hogsback sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345803 , vital:63316 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC348a-08
- Description: Xhosa music at Hogsback festival
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1996
Yaka Yaka Ndemka
- Hogsback festival participants, Nomeva, N., Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Hogsback festival participants , Nomeva, N. , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Hogsback sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345785 , vital:63317 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC348a-08
- Description: Xhosa music at Hogsback festival
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1996
- Authors: Hogsback festival participants , Nomeva, N. , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Hogsback sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345785 , vital:63317 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC348a-08
- Description: Xhosa music at Hogsback festival
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1996
Yaka Yaka Ndemka
- Hogsback festival participants, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Hogsback festival participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Hogsback sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345891 , vital:63328 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC348b-08
- Description: Xhosa music at Hogsback festival
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1996
- Authors: Hogsback festival participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Hogsback sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345891 , vital:63328 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC348b-08
- Description: Xhosa music at Hogsback festival
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1996
Ye Mandela
- Ngqoko Xhosa ensemble participants, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Ngqoko Xhosa ensemble participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Alice sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/341058 , vital:62725 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC338a-01
- Description: Ngqoko music ensemble accompanied by clapping and whistle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1996
- Authors: Ngqoko Xhosa ensemble participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Alice sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/341058 , vital:62725 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC338a-01
- Description: Ngqoko music ensemble accompanied by clapping and whistle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1996
Chris McGregor and The Brotherhood of Breath
- Unknown
- Authors: Unknown
- Subjects: McGregor, Chris--1936-1990 , Brotherhood of Breath (Musical group) , Blue Notes (Musical group : South Africa) , Pukwana, Dudu , Moholo, Louis T.--1940- , Dedication Orchestra
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:13689 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012695
- Description: Photocopied article form the magazine Cadence about Maxine McGregor's book "Chris McGregor and the Brotherhood of Breath". There is a picture of Chris McGregor with this article.
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- Authors: Unknown
- Subjects: McGregor, Chris--1936-1990 , Brotherhood of Breath (Musical group) , Blue Notes (Musical group : South Africa) , Pukwana, Dudu , Moholo, Louis T.--1940- , Dedication Orchestra
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:13689 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012695
- Description: Photocopied article form the magazine Cadence about Maxine McGregor's book "Chris McGregor and the Brotherhood of Breath". There is a picture of Chris McGregor with this article.
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Editorial 1996.pdf
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438719 , vital:73494
- Description: The theme of the 1996 conference - Learning for Change - is an ambiguous notion that can be interpreted in more than one way. The concept of change itself - central as it is to educational responses to socio-ecological dilemmas - is not only complex, but political, and different authors understand the ways in which change come about, differently.
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- Date Issued: 1996
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438719 , vital:73494
- Description: The theme of the 1996 conference - Learning for Change - is an ambiguous notion that can be interpreted in more than one way. The concept of change itself - central as it is to educational responses to socio-ecological dilemmas - is not only complex, but political, and different authors understand the ways in which change come about, differently.
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- Date Issued: 1996
Spirits in action
- Authors: Vickery, Steve , Wilmer, Val
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:13665 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012577
- Description: Photocopied article from the magazine Coda. This article is based on the book written by Maxine McGregor, Chris McGregor's wife "My Life With A South African Jazz Pioneer" (Bamberger Books). The article is reviewing Chris McGregor's life and his relations with the other members of the band Blue Notes who exiled in Europe, such as Dudu Pukwana, Mongezi Feza, Louis Moholo or Nick Moyake. There are 4 pictures with this article. A photo of Chris McGregor outside with a horse is on the first page; on the second page there is a picture of the Blue Notes; a photo of Dudu Pukwana and Mongezi Feza is on the third page and on the last page, a photo is showing Louis Moholo (in the front) with the band Viva la Black.
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- Authors: Vickery, Steve , Wilmer, Val
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:13665 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012577
- Description: Photocopied article from the magazine Coda. This article is based on the book written by Maxine McGregor, Chris McGregor's wife "My Life With A South African Jazz Pioneer" (Bamberger Books). The article is reviewing Chris McGregor's life and his relations with the other members of the band Blue Notes who exiled in Europe, such as Dudu Pukwana, Mongezi Feza, Louis Moholo or Nick Moyake. There are 4 pictures with this article. A photo of Chris McGregor outside with a horse is on the first page; on the second page there is a picture of the Blue Notes; a photo of Dudu Pukwana and Mongezi Feza is on the third page and on the last page, a photo is showing Louis Moholo (in the front) with the band Viva la Black.
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