Project
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.
Project
Where Does The Air Go?: Making a Women's Opera
My project involves writing a song cycle to form the basis of an opera, Where Does The Air Go?
Publication
Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road
Brubeck, Darius and Catherine Brubeck. 2023. Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road. UKZN Press. https://www.ukz...
Publication
Cape Town Harmonies: Memory, Humour and Resilience
Gaulier, Armelle and Denis-Constant Martin. 2017. Cape Town Harmonies: Memory, Humour and Resilience. African Minds. https://www.africanmind...
Publication
Chronicles of the Kaapse Klopse: Followed by Themes in Klopse Names
Denis-Constant Martin. 2021. Chronicles of the Kaapse Klopse: Followed by Themes in Klopse Names, 261 p. https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr...
Publication
Sounding the Cape: Music, Identity and Politics in Sourth Africa
Denis-Constant Martin. 2013. Sounding the Cape: Music, Identity and Politics in Sourth Africa. African Minds, 444 + xxvi pp. ISBN 978-1-9204...
Publication
Les beautés de l’ambivalence en dispute, les nederlandsliedjies du Cap (Afrique du Sud)
Martin, Denis-Constant. 2015. Les beautés de l’ambivalence en dispute, les nederlandsliedjies du Cap (Afrique du Sud). Cahiers d’ethnomusico...
Project
The Free Peoples Festivals: exploring cross-border relationships and interactions in the fostering of alternative music communities in South Africa
This project forms part of a five year research project that is investigating the role that alternative music communities in South Africa played to imagine and create a social order different from the system of apartheid.
