Syllabus
(may change) 24. 2.
Introductory class - the problem of audio and visual representation of Africa 3. 3.
Khoisan pre-colonial musical cultures
- John Marshall: The Hunters (1957)
- John Marshall: N/um tchai: the ceremonial dance of the!Kung Bushmen (1957)
- Bradford Keeney: Giraffe Dance a !Gwa Dance (2002) 10. 3.
Bantu pre-colonial musical cultures - musix as a form of social life
- Hugh Tracey, historical recordings from the International Library of African Music 17. 3.
Bantu pre-colonial musical cultures in the capitalist economy and on the colonial stage
- Hugh Tracey, historical recordings from the International Library of African Music
- Carol A. Muller: gumboot dance
- Vít Zdrálek: ethnographic videos from the Morija Arts & Cultural Festival, Lesotho, 2007 24. 3.
Christian mission and funcional harmony
- Hugh Tracey a Dave Dargie, historical recordings from the International Library of African Music
- Nepomuk Riva: The Great Hymn: The South-African Prophet Ntsikana on Opera Stage (2015)
- Vít Zdrálek: ethnographic videos of the unveiling tombstones ritual, Lefiswane, South Africa, 2009 31. 3.
Christian civilizing mission, new music literacy and the first black emancipation
- historical recordings from the South African Music Archive Project 7. 4.
In the universe of South African iniciated churches
- recordings of and by the Zion Christian Church and the Nazarite Baptist Church
- Vít Zdrálek: ethnographic videos of Zion Christian Church's and various apostholic churches' worship around Pretoria, South Africa, 2008-2009 14. 4. Dean's holiday 21. 4.
South African jazz, the Black Atlantic, and the writing of jazz historiography from the periphery
- historical recordings from BALLANTINE, C. J. 2012 (1993). Marabi nights: jazz, 'race' and society in early apartheid South African. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
- historical and more recent recordings from various online resources 28. 4.
Black urban popular culture, globalization and world music
- Vít Zdrálek: ethnographic video of an isicathamiya competition in Durbanu, South African, 2009
- Darrell Roodt: Sarafina! (1992) 5. 5.
Rock'n'roll and the aparhteid policy on media and recording companies
- Malik Bendjelloul: Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
- Lloyd Ross: Voëlvry: The Movie (2006)
- Shifty Records on Bandcamp 12. 5.
Electronic dance music in an unequal society
- Aryan Kaganof: SHARP! SHARP! – the kwaito story (2003)
- Gavin Hood: Tsotsi (2005)
- Vít Zdrálek: field revordings and videos from Mamelodi township, South Africa, 2006-2011
- commercial recordings online 19. 5.
Europena clossical music in South Africa unifying and dividing
- Mark Dornford-May: U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)
Annotation
The course is an introduction to the sound and visual worlds of South African musical cultures via playing and screening short and long audio and audiovisual material (historical and contemporary recordings; ethnographic recordings; photographs; music documentaries; films etc.). The course is a supplement to the course "South African Music Cultures" (taught in Czech only) and is meant to broaden and develop students' immediate experience of mostly unfamiliar musical cultures.
Given the nature of the material played and screened (in English and/or African languages), the course is open to non-Czech speakers too. Every piece of music is going to be briefly introduced and a short discussion will follow afterwards.