{"id":1449,"date":"2018-03-20T11:53:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T09:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2024-11-26T16:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T14:19:09","slug":"cape-town-harmonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/blog\/cape-town-harmonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town Harmonies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memory, Humour & Resilience<\/h4>\n

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Tuesday 10 April 2018
\n14:00 \u2013 15:30 \u2013 Centre for Humanities Research, University of Western Cape<\/span><\/h4>\n

Thursday 12 April 2018
\n16:00 \u2013 18:00 \u2013 College of Music, University of Cape Town<\/span><\/h4>\n

Armelle Gaulier<\/strong> (LAM-Bordeaux)<\/p>\n

Cape Town Harmonies\u00a0: Memory, Humour & Resilience\u00a0proposes an analysis of two repertoires of choral songs :\u00a0Nederlandslidjies\u00a0and\u00a0Moppies,\u00a0interpreted by Cape Town\u2019s \u201cMalay Choirs\u201d and\u00a0Klopse\u00a0(carnival clubs)\u00a0which are performed each year in Cape Town during the\u00a0Klopse\u00a0carnival and the Malay Choirs competition, from January till March. It\u00a0suggests that the study of the origin and organisation of these choirs, of the various styles of interpretation adopted by the choirs and of the intense discussion they generate provide a subtle understanding of the wavering and ambivalences which underlie the various notions of identity discussed among people who were classified \u201ccoloured\u201d during apartheid.\u00a0Cape Town Harmonies\u00a0shows how ethnomusicological and sociopolitical analyses can cross-fertilise and help apprehend intricate situations in all their nuances.<\/p>\n

In the two seminars, Armelle Gaulier shall propose an analysis of these repertoires and show how multiple and dynamic \u201ccoloured identity configurations\u201d appear to be when approached from a musical angle.\u00a0Nederlandslidjies\u00a0and\u00a0Moppies\u00a0are rooted in history and are said to embody \u00ab\u00a0tradition\u00a0\u00bb; yet they have continuously changed and have always adapted to social and political circumstances, as well as to musical fashions. They provide evidence of creativity on the part of people who have long been considered as having no history and no culture, and the discussions they arouse suggest that there is no fixed, immutable \u201ccoloured identity\u201d but multiple, adaptable and consequently endlessly transforming conceptions of identity.<\/p>\n

Armelle Gaulier<\/strong> holds a doctorate in political science from the Bordeaux Institute of Political Studies. She conducted research on the musics of the Kaapse Klopse and the Malay Choirs in 2006 and 2008, and was granted two masters degrees from the University of Paris 8-Saint Denis for dissertations based on her \ufb01eldwork in Cape Town. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Bordeaux Institute of Political Studies. Her research focuses on the relationship between music, politics and identity, with a particular interest in the symbolic power of music, and in musical practices and experiences of citizenship, especially within groups of migrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Memory, Humour & Resilience Tuesday 10 April 2018 14:00 \u2013 15:30 \u2013 Centre for Humanities Research, University of Western Cape Thursday 12 April 2018 16:00 \u2013 18:00 \u2013 College of Music, University of Cape Town Armelle Gaulier (LAM-Bordeaux) Cape Town Harmonies\u00a0: Memory, Humour & Resilience\u00a0proposes an analysis of two repertoires of choral songs :\u00a0Nederlandslidjies\u00a0and\u00a0Moppies,\u00a0interpreted by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,21,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-events","category-news","category-workshops-seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7114,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/7114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}