Matshikiza’s King Kong Re-heard: A Pianistic Inquiry

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dc.book.titleProceedings of the Arts Research Africa Conference 2020en_ZA
dc.citation.doihttps://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/A9PF7en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorMnana, Yonela
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-08T13:15:07Z
dc.date.available2020-07-08T13:15:07Z
dc.date.issued2020-07
dc.descriptionHow did Todd Matshikiza, the famed Drum magazine reporter, pianist, and composer of King Kong, the South African hit musical of the 1950s, straddle these multiple worlds in his music? Drawing on my own experience as a jazz pianist, I attempted to answer this question through a performed analysis of an unreleased solo piano recording by Matshikiza. As a performer, my research aims to be not only about, but in the culture of South African solo jazz piano tradition.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractHow did Todd Matshikiza, the famed Drum magazine reporter, pianist, and composer of King Kong, the South African hit musical of the 1950s, straddle these multiple worlds in his music? Drawing on my own experience as a jazz pianist, I attempted to answer this question through a performed analysis of an unreleased solo piano recording by Matshikiza. As a performer, my research aims to be not only about, but in the culture of South African solo jazz piano tradition.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianChristo Doherty 2020en_ZA
dc.facultyHumanitiesen_ZA
dc.funderThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundationen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHow did Todd Matshikiza, the famed Drum magazine reporter, pianist, and composer of King Kong, the South African hit musical of the 1950s, straddle these multiple worlds in his music? Drawing on my own experience as a jazz pianist, I attempted to answer this question through a performed analysis of an unreleased solo piano recording by Matshikiza. As a performer, my research aims to be not only about, but in the culture of South African solo jazz piano tradition.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/29239
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherArts Research Africa, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersranden_ZA
dc.rightsLicensed 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 panellistsen_ZA
dc.schoolThe Wits School of Artsen_ZA
dc.subjectartistic research, arts research, decolonisation, arts pedagogy,en_ZA
dc.titleMatshikiza’s King Kong Re-heard: A Pianistic Inquiryen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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