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Sound Knowledges of the Black World

This project investigates sound knowledges from Southern African cosmologies and investigate their deployment in black radicalism enacted within Pan-African and black internationalist contexts in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Uhuru Phalafala Uhuru Phalafala

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Playing at/against power: Histories of Trauma and Abuse in South African Music-Pedagogical Spaces

The proposed project builds on some of my earlier work on music and violence, and is born of the politico-ethical imperative to break the silence surrounding structural violence and abuse in institutionalised spaces devoted to music pedagogy: the lecture room, the teaching studio, the community project.

Carina Venter Carina Venter
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