'Underground' hip hop and rock music scenes in East London: exploring identity and authenticity, c1994 - 2010
- Mtshemla, Sinazo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4057-5637
- Authors: Mtshemla, Sinazo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4057-5637
- Date: 2014-01
- Subjects: Identity (Philosophical concept) , Rap (Music)
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/25195 , vital:63993
- Description: This study explores how through music discourses and representations of identity and authenticity are articulated through a reading of hip hop and rock music scenes in post-apartheid East London. I have read through interviews, spaces where performances occur and material culture associated with the artists, of musicians moving between ideas of resistance to the mainstream as well as conforming in their representations of identity. The tensions aroused by these underground music scenes in my study ran between resistance and conforming narratives in relation to how musicians express how they make sense of identity and authenticity in the changing post-apartheid landscape. Therefore the complex readings of identity derived from the study showed how contradictory music allows one to be. Further the study found that the assertions about race, ethnicity and identity were often more subtle and contradictory at times, which warranted one to pay closer attention to these music scenes. Inasmuch as musicians attempted to move out of the mainstream by placing themselves in an alternative positioning, they remained limited to ‘authentic’ articulations of identity, where race remained either ‘invisibly’ white or problematically ‘native’ as centres of authentic representation. Moreover the study was able to show the anxieties and tensions around citizenship, identity and belonging. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2014
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- Date Issued: 2014-01
- Authors: Mtshemla, Sinazo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4057-5637
- Date: 2014-01
- Subjects: Identity (Philosophical concept) , Rap (Music)
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/25195 , vital:63993
- Description: This study explores how through music discourses and representations of identity and authenticity are articulated through a reading of hip hop and rock music scenes in post-apartheid East London. I have read through interviews, spaces where performances occur and material culture associated with the artists, of musicians moving between ideas of resistance to the mainstream as well as conforming in their representations of identity. The tensions aroused by these underground music scenes in my study ran between resistance and conforming narratives in relation to how musicians express how they make sense of identity and authenticity in the changing post-apartheid landscape. Therefore the complex readings of identity derived from the study showed how contradictory music allows one to be. Further the study found that the assertions about race, ethnicity and identity were often more subtle and contradictory at times, which warranted one to pay closer attention to these music scenes. Inasmuch as musicians attempted to move out of the mainstream by placing themselves in an alternative positioning, they remained limited to ‘authentic’ articulations of identity, where race remained either ‘invisibly’ white or problematically ‘native’ as centres of authentic representation. Moreover the study was able to show the anxieties and tensions around citizenship, identity and belonging. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2014
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- Date Issued: 2014-01
A pastoral-theological approach to teenage pregnancy of the church of Central Africa Presbyterian, Blantyre Synod in Malawi
- Authors: Stephens, Chaplain N
- Date: 2014-01
- Subjects: Teenage pregnancy
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/26403 , vital:65302
- Description: Unwanted teenage pregnancy is one of the ongoing challenges affecting society. This issue affects the unborn child, the teenage mother, the family and the wider society. It is a problem of both the developed and developing countries. Thirty six per cent of girls in Malawi become mothers before twenty years. Among other factors that contribute to teenage pregnancy are curiosity, pressure from peers, economic survival, coercion and cultural practices. The aim of the study was to establish a pastoral-theological approach to teenage pregnancy in the C.C.A.P Blantyre Synod, in Malawi.- The study revealed that teenage mothers are faced with many challenges such as lack of financial, social and spiritual support. They also curtail their education and although some do return to school, many do not. Teenage mothers are regarded as outcasts by society and the church and as such they feel stigmatized. The stigma has in some cases ensued in unsafe abortion. Although the church disciplines the teenage mothers for falling pregnant out-of-wedlock the responsible man is left free. The following five major themes emerged from the data: Social factors, social problems, economic problems and social and spiritual support. Nine focus groups with parents of teenage mothers were conducted. Twenty (Official church elders and counsellors) were interviewed in the three Presbyteries of Thyolo Highlands, Blantyre North and Blantyre City. , Thesis (MTh) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2014
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- Date Issued: 2014-01
- Authors: Stephens, Chaplain N
- Date: 2014-01
- Subjects: Teenage pregnancy
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/26403 , vital:65302
- Description: Unwanted teenage pregnancy is one of the ongoing challenges affecting society. This issue affects the unborn child, the teenage mother, the family and the wider society. It is a problem of both the developed and developing countries. Thirty six per cent of girls in Malawi become mothers before twenty years. Among other factors that contribute to teenage pregnancy are curiosity, pressure from peers, economic survival, coercion and cultural practices. The aim of the study was to establish a pastoral-theological approach to teenage pregnancy in the C.C.A.P Blantyre Synod, in Malawi.- The study revealed that teenage mothers are faced with many challenges such as lack of financial, social and spiritual support. They also curtail their education and although some do return to school, many do not. Teenage mothers are regarded as outcasts by society and the church and as such they feel stigmatized. The stigma has in some cases ensued in unsafe abortion. Although the church disciplines the teenage mothers for falling pregnant out-of-wedlock the responsible man is left free. The following five major themes emerged from the data: Social factors, social problems, economic problems and social and spiritual support. Nine focus groups with parents of teenage mothers were conducted. Twenty (Official church elders and counsellors) were interviewed in the three Presbyteries of Thyolo Highlands, Blantyre North and Blantyre City. , Thesis (MTh) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2014
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- Date Issued: 2014-01
Synthesis, characterization and biological evaluation of xanthate metal complexes
- Authors: Casa, Sandisiwe
- Date: 2014-01
- Subjects: Metal complexes , Ligands
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/24250 , vital:62594
- Description: Ni(II), Ag(I), Cu(II), Pd(II) and Pt(II) complexes of xanthate were synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, UV‒Vis, FTIR, conductivity measurements, decomposition temperatures, and Pd(II), Pt(II) complexes and the xanthate ligands were further characterized by 1H-NMR spectroscopy. Conductivity measurements displayed that the complexes are non‒electrolytes in solution with conductivity values in the range 0.05 ‒ 18.30 μS. Generally all the xanthate ligands are soluble in water and the complexes are insoluble both in non-polar solvents except polar coordinating solvents such as DMSO and DMF. The xanthate complexes are formulated as four coordinate (tetrahedral or square planar), and six coordinate (octahedral) compounds. However, in each of the complexes xanthate acted as bidentate ligand through the two sulfur atoms. The geometries around the metal ions are completed by triphenylphosphine. The ligands and complexes were screened against two bacterial isolates to determine their antibacterial activities. Antibacterial activity of the synthesized metal complexes shows a generally increased activity in comparison with that of their respective free ligands. At a lower concentration some of the complexes did not show any activity, a good number of complexes however showed activity at a higher concentration of 40 mg/ml. The degree of activity varies with metals. Silver complex have been observed to show the highest activity of MIC value of 1.25 mg/mL with regards to antibacterial strength, although it varies with different ligands. , Thesis (MSc) -- Faculty of Science and Agriculture, 2014
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- Date Issued: 2014-01
- Authors: Casa, Sandisiwe
- Date: 2014-01
- Subjects: Metal complexes , Ligands
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/24250 , vital:62594
- Description: Ni(II), Ag(I), Cu(II), Pd(II) and Pt(II) complexes of xanthate were synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, UV‒Vis, FTIR, conductivity measurements, decomposition temperatures, and Pd(II), Pt(II) complexes and the xanthate ligands were further characterized by 1H-NMR spectroscopy. Conductivity measurements displayed that the complexes are non‒electrolytes in solution with conductivity values in the range 0.05 ‒ 18.30 μS. Generally all the xanthate ligands are soluble in water and the complexes are insoluble both in non-polar solvents except polar coordinating solvents such as DMSO and DMF. The xanthate complexes are formulated as four coordinate (tetrahedral or square planar), and six coordinate (octahedral) compounds. However, in each of the complexes xanthate acted as bidentate ligand through the two sulfur atoms. The geometries around the metal ions are completed by triphenylphosphine. The ligands and complexes were screened against two bacterial isolates to determine their antibacterial activities. Antibacterial activity of the synthesized metal complexes shows a generally increased activity in comparison with that of their respective free ligands. At a lower concentration some of the complexes did not show any activity, a good number of complexes however showed activity at a higher concentration of 40 mg/ml. The degree of activity varies with metals. Silver complex have been observed to show the highest activity of MIC value of 1.25 mg/mL with regards to antibacterial strength, although it varies with different ligands. , Thesis (MSc) -- Faculty of Science and Agriculture, 2014
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- Date Issued: 2014-01
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