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Pissing On The Rainbow Nation

NATHAN TRANTRAAL

Ôs haatie wit mense nie. Hoekô haat julle vi ôs?

The Music Department in South Africa as a Mirror of Racial Tension and Transformative Struggle: A Critical Ethnographic Perspective

TENDAYI SITHOLE

Black artists and the paradox of the gift

Theme Johnny Mbizo Dyani

ZWELEDINGA PALLO JORDAN

JOHNNY DYANI: A Portrait

JOHNNY MBIZO DYANI

A Letter From Mbizo

Johnny Dyani Interview 22-23 December 1985

SALIM WASHINGTON

“Don’t Sell Out”

LOUIS MOHOLO-MOHOLO & HERBIE TSOAELI WITH JOHNNY DYANI

In Conversation with Mbizo

ZOLISWA FIKELEPI-TWANI & NDUDUZO MAKHATHINI

When Today Becomes The Past: The Archive as a Healing Process

Tradition as improvisation | Continuity and abstraction

GILBERT MATTHEWS & LEFIFI TLADI

An Interview with Lars Rasmussen

The Musical Confluence of Johnny Dyani and Bheki Mseleku in Exile

TENDAYI SITHOLE

Blue Scripts For Johnny Mbizo Dyani - Script i: The Figure

TENDAYI SITHOLE

Blue Scripts For Johnny Mbizo Dyani - Script ii: Ontology Of The Bass

TENDAYI SITHOLE

Blue Scripts For Johnny Mbizo Dyani - Script iii: Musical Offering

TENDAYI SITHOLE

Blue Scripts For Johnny Mbizo Dyani - Script iv: Home And Exile

TENDAYI SITHOLE

Blue Scripts For Johnny Mbizo Dyani - Script v: Experimental Philosophic Incantations

TENDAYI SITHOLE

Blue Scripts For Johnny Mbizo Dyani - Script vi: The Posthumous Life

Diasporic musical landscapes: Abdullah Ibrahim, Johnny Dyani, and Sathima Bea Benjamin in an African Space Program (1969-1980)

BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH

Riot in Progress (Legalize Freedom)

S’MAKUHLE BOKWE MAFUNA

Notes on the Exile Years

KEI MURRAY MONGEZI PROSPER MCGREGOR

Who the Son was?

Somebody Blew Up South Africa

Interludes with Bra’ Tete Mbambisa

Morduntersuchungskommission. Der Fall Daniela Nitschke

THANDI ALLIN DYANI

"I love you. You don’t have to love me but I love you."

Shades of Johnny Dyani

Jazz is my Life

TJOBOLO KHAHLISO

FEDERICO FEDERICI

Notes (not only) on asemic phenomenology

ANDRÉ CLEMENTS

Vita-Socio-Anarcho

MUSTAPHA JINADU

From Cape-to-Cairo – AZANIA

MALAIKA WA AZANIA

In a foreign tongue...

Imagining an African Feminist Press

Isithunguthu (A conversation in Joburg)

CATHERINE RUDENT

Against the “Grain of the Voice” - Studying the voice in songs

Amo (2021), for five voices and electronics

Exceeding Syncopation?

Notes on camp/anti-camp

PATRICIA PISTERS

Set and Setting of the Brain on Hallucinogen: Psychedelic Revival in the Acid Western

KHADIJA TRACEY HEEGER

Vuleka Mhlaba (What Would Happen if Madiba Returned?)

Die mooi mooi gedig en anner massekinners ….

OSWALD KUCHERERA

Travelling on the Khayelitsha Train

Islands in the stream

FAEEZ VAN DOORSEN

Nobody’s Mullet

GADDAFI MAKHOSANDILE

The Face of Hope

Extracts from Phosakufa (the epic)

Mistaken Identity

People of the Townships part 2

SIMBARASHE NYATSANZA

How to Become an African President

MICHALIS PICHLER

LINDELWA DALAMBA

From Kippie to Kippies and Beyond: the village welcomes this child

Zim Ngqawana: A child of the rain

Black Noise: Notes on a Semanalysis of Mogorosi’s De~~Aesthetic~~

LIZE VAN ROBBROECK

DECOLONIZING ART BOOK FAIRS: Publishing Practices from the South(s).

The Future lies with folk art: Max Schleser’s smartphone filmmaking THEORY AND PRACTICE

Ronelda Kamfer’s Kompoun: unapologetic and honest writing.

Piecing Together the Barely Exquisite Corpse: On Tinashe Mushakavanhu’s Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on the Speculative Archive

One from the heart: Dimakatso Sedite's Yellow Shade

BLAQ PEARL (JANINE VAN ROOY-OVERMEYER)

Uit die Kroes: gedigte deur Lynthia Julius

FRANK MEINTJIES

Wild Has Roots: thinking about what it means to be human

MPHUTHUMI NTABENI

The Land Wars: The Dispossession of the Khoisan and AmaXhosa in the Cape Colony - a discourse on the unrelenting and ruthless process of colonial conquest

MKHULU MNGOMEZULU

Call Me By My Name: Ubizo and Ancestral Names for Abangoma

In Conversation with Zakes Mda: "The full story must be told."

INGE ENGELBRECHT

Tribute to Sacks Williams: A composer from Genadendal

ESTHER MARIE PAUW

A tribute to Hilton Biscombe

WILLEMIEN FRONEMAN

Resisting the Siren Song of Race

Things My Father Taught Me

HEIDI GRUNEBAUM

On returning to my grandmother’s land (notes for a film)

HILTON BISCOMBE

A boytjie from Stellenbosch

Art, Archives, Anthropology

On Archives, Metadata and Aesthetics

KEYAN G. TOMASELLI

The Nomadic Mind of Teshome Gabriel: Hybridity, Identity and Diaspora

FINN DANIELS-YEOMAN & DARA WALDRON

Song For Hector - the utopian promise of the archive

TREVOR STEELE TAYLOR

Censorship, Film Festivals and the Temperature at which Artworks and their Creators Burn - episode 2

Sustaining an Imagined Culture: Some Reflections on South African Music Research in Thirty-Five Years of Ars Nova

RAFI ALIYA CROCKETT

Loxion Fabulous: Temporality and Spaciality in South African Kwaito Performance

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