A critique of the music school as a conservative system of music production
| Autor: | Martina Viljoen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Muziki. 11:116-132 |
| ISSN: | 1753-593X 1812-5980 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/18125980.2014.966469 |
| Popis: | This article explores the music school as a locus of musical production that is rarely subjected to critique. Departing from the viewpoints of Bruno Nettl (1995) who describes the music school as a society “ruled by deities with sacred texts, rituals, ceremonial numbers, and a priesthood”, it is hypothesised that many of the questions put forward in his Heartland excursions (1995) still pose challenges to schools of music (or tertiary departments of music) in South Africa today. While the new musicology has taken local music scholarship by storm and turned its more traditional, formalist-oriented practices upside down, it can hardly be denied that this progressive discipline is still practised within institutionalised contexts that are heavily invested in the autonomy principle. Within the South African musical landscape, this is most true for those schools of music or tertiary music departments viewed as leading institutions.The aim, therefore, of this paper is to introduce questions relevant to ... |
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