{"product_id":"the-music-of-mzilikazi-khumalo-language-culture-and-song-in-south-africa-9798765113264","title":"The Music of Mzilikazi Khumalo: Language, Culture, and Song in South Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMzilikazi Khumalo (1932-2021), an iconic figure in choral music in South Africa, rose to prominence as one of Africa's leading composers of art music. This is a work of music history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBiographical essays on Khumalo's major works, including those for choir, orchestra, and opera are complemented by contextual studies of his compositions and arrangements as well as reflections on his roles as editor, conductor, and music director. Specifically in the context of South Africa's cultural and political transition from Apartheid to democracy, Khumalo's key role in establishing the Nation Building Massed Choir Festival, a multi-racial institution that forged an inclusive space for music, in the 1980s is discussed as evidence of his importance and relevance in South African culture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKhumalo's major works are studied in relation to contemporary art music, choral composition, and traditional song. These are \u003ci\u003eUShaka KaSenzangakhona\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), an African epic, and \u003ci\u003ePrincess Magogo KaDinuzulu \u003c\/i\u003e(2002), one of the first indigenous African operas. Khumalo's artistic collaborators provide insight into their experiences working on these major projects, documenting the relationships the composer cultivated with his peers. This volume addresses a lacuna in the literature on South African art music which until recently tended to focus on works in the classical tradition and shows that Khumalo is a composer without peer in his synthesis of classical and choral, traditional and contemporary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas M. Pooley\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Art and Music at the University of South Africa. He has published widely on African art music, and on Zulu music, language and culture. He is Editor-in-Chief of \u003ci\u003eMuziki, Journal of Music Research in Africa \u003c\/i\u003eand author of \u003ci\u003eThe Land is Sung: Zulu Performances and the Politics of Place\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNaomi Andr? \u003c\/b\u003eis the David G. Frey Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, and Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan, USA. \u003ci\u003eBlack Opera: History, Power, Engagement\u003c\/i\u003e, is published by the University of Illinois Press. She is John E. Sawyer Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2022-2023.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInnocentia Mhlambi\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of African Languages at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAfrican-language Literatures: Perspectives on isiZulu Fiction and Popular Television Series\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-author of \u003ci\u003eMintiro ya Vulavula: Arts, national identities and democracy in South Africa\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonato Somma\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer and Head of Music at the Wits School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Somma has published on African operas and on music in Italian prisoner of war camps in South Africa.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901270593810,"sku":"9798765113264","price":142.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_43e69226-d0cb-4188-b877-c7aedbd1ebb8.jpg?v=1738419493","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-music-of-mzilikazi-khumalo-language-culture-and-song-in-south-africa-9798765113264","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}