Revisiting Dorothy Masuka’s Hamba Nontsokolo: tales of women, migrancy, and Jazz in the 1950s

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dc.book.titleProceedings of the Arts Research Africa Conference 2020en_ZA
dc.citation.doihttps://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9NZGFen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMzimela, Phumelele
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-08T11:59:34Z
dc.date.available2020-07-08T11:59:34Z
dc.date.issued2020-07
dc.descriptionArts Research Africa Conference Presentation 2020en_ZA
dc.description.abstractHow does a classic song like Nontsokolo, discussed and newly imagined, tell us a larger musical story that South African jazz history has forgotten? This paper revisits the “classic” vocal jazz piece Hamba Nontsokolo, which was composed, performed, and recorded by the late Dorothy Masuku in 1954. In contrast to the focus in the existing literature on the lives of black jazz singers and the socio-political contexts of their time, this paper examines the music of the song and offers a new arrangement, as a process of creative research, suggesting how the “classic” may be re-imagined today.en_ZA
dc.description.submitterCD2020
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.funderThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundationen_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/29222
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherArts Research Africa (ARA)en_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.rights© 2020 Arts Research Africa. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Copyright of texts: the authors, performers, and panellists Copyright of images: the authors, artists, performers, and panellists.en_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Artsen_ZA
dc.subjectArtistic researchen_ZA
dc.subjectArts research
dc.subjectDecolonisation
dc.subjectArts pedagogy
dc.titleRevisiting Dorothy Masuka’s Hamba Nontsokolo: tales of women, migrancy, and Jazz in the 1950sen_ZA
dc.typePresentationen_ZA

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