Music
is an art form used to express emotions and convey ideas. These qualities have
made it a beneficial medium for articulating and circulating messages for
social change throughout history. On the African continent, music has been used
to protest apartheid, colonialism, political marginalisation and, in more
contemporary times, femicide, gender-based violence, respectability politics
and police brutality. In this seminar, music from Africa that has been used as
a form of resistance will be positioned as a cultural text through which
African societies can be analysed. The music will be read in conjunction with
the sociopolitical and cultural contexts to understand its use as a resistance
medium. This seminar does not require prior music training, as there will be no
musical analysis.
- Kursleiter*in: James Paradza