A uniting song that divides: A critical analysis ofAw Dubul'ibhunu(Kill the Boer)

Autor: Mabunda M. Thompson, Cindy Ramhurry
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Muziki. 11:32-42
ISSN: 1753-593X
1812-5980
DOI: 10.1080/18125980.2014.893091
Popis: Contemporary scholars and theorists have devoted much attention to the issue of musical meaning, thereby trying to analyze how it is that music means. Their analysis, however, seems to focus on meaning as it manifeststhrough language. Equally important, as Cross and Tolbert (2008: 1) note, is that “their ideas, particularly in the form of semantics, have tended to account generally for the relationships between the phenomena that constitute the object meaning and the expressions and sets of expressions that are used to articulate meanings”. The relationship between the object of meaning as well as the expressions used to articulate meanings presents two aspects: reference of the term, on the one hand, and sense of the term, on the other. While the former could be taken to mean that which the term denotes or, to use Cross and Tolbert's (2008) exact words, “that phenomenon in the world onto which [the term] can be mapped”, the latter is “derived from the ways in which that original term relates to o...
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