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STAY INFORMED
Important information for accessing the conference venue this weekend:
The South African Society for Research in Music’s 18th Annual Conference takes place at three venues located within the Braamfontein campus: the Chris Seabrooke Hall, the Rehearsal Room adjacent to the hall and the Nunnery.
Wits campus is challenging to enter as a visitor because all entrances have fingerprint/card readers for staff/student card holders only. Please thus note on the above map which entrances are pedestrian if arriving via Uber and which are for vehicular parking. As Friday 26th July is a teaching day, parking on campus will be difficult and we advise delegates to travel via Uber if at all possible. Uber drop-offs should be at the pedestrian visitor’s entrance next to the Solomon Mahlangu Building and/or the Wits Art Museum (WAM) entrance on Jorissen Street. If you do need to park a vehicle, please go to the Solomon Mhlangu building entrance marked on the map, bring your ID and request visitors’ parking in the basement (only on Friday 26th July). On Saturday and Sunday (27th-28th July), campus should be quieter and therefore you should be able to park your vehicle on campus, entering via the Station Street entrance as marked on the map.
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![Important information for accessing the conference venue this weekend:
The South African Society for Research in Music’s 18th Annual Conference takes place at three venues located within the Braamfontein campus: the Chris Seabrooke Hall, the Rehearsal Room adjacent to the hall and the Nunnery.
Wits campus is challenging to enter as a visitor because all entrances have fingerprint/card readers for staff/student card holders only. Please thus note on the above map which entrances are pedestrian if arriving via Uber and which are for vehicular parking. As Friday 26th July is a teaching day, parking on campus will be difficult and we advise delegates to travel via Uber if at all possible. Uber drop-offs should be at the pedestrian visitor’s entrance next to the Solomon Mahlangu Building and/or the Wits Art Museum (WAM) entrance on Jorissen Street. If you do need to park a vehicle, please go to the Solomon Mhlangu building entrance marked on the map, bring your ID and request visitors’ parking in the basement (only on Friday 26th July). On Saturday and Sunday (27th-28th July), campus should be quieter and therefore you should be able to park your vehicle on campus, entering via the Station Street entrance as marked on the map.
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Important information for accessing the conference venue this weekend:
The South African Society for Research in Music’s 18th Annual Conference takes place at three venues located within the Braamfontein campus: the Chris Seabrooke Hall, the Rehearsal Room adjacent to the hall and the Nunnery.
Wits campus is challenging to enter as a visitor because all entrances have fingerprint/card readers for staff/student card holders only. Please thus note on the above map which entrances are pedestrian if arriving via Uber and which are for vehicular parking. As Friday 26th July is a teaching day, parking on campus will be difficult and we advise delegates to travel via Uber if at all possible. Uber drop-offs should be at the pedestrian visitor’s entrance next to the Solomon Mahlangu Building and/or the Wits Art Museum (WAM) entrance on Jorissen Street. If you do need to park a vehicle, please go to the Solomon Mhlangu building entrance marked on the map, bring your ID and request visitors’ parking in the basement (only on Friday 26th July). On Saturday and Sunday (27th-28th July), campus should be quieter and therefore you should be able to park your vehicle on campus, entering via the Station Street entrance as marked on the map.
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Saturday 27 July, 14:30 at the Chris Seabrooke Hall at Wits Braamfontein Campus as part of this year’s conference. Work by @drcloveday with text by @wanjikukihato , performed by @mareli.stolp
Saturday 27 July, 14:30 at the Chris Seabrooke Hall at Wits Braamfontein Campus as part of this year’s conference. Work by @drcloveday with text by @wanjikukihato , performed by @mareli.stolp
Keynote Address II (Saturday 27 July 2024)
“The Potential of Operatic Spaces Today” by
Naomi André (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
@naomiandre67 is the David G. Frey Distinguished Professor in the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan in Afroamerican and African Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and the Residential College. Her degrees in Music are from Barnard College (BA) and Harvard University (MA, PhD). Her research focuses on opera and issues surrounding gender, voice, and race in the US, Europe, and South Africa. Her publications include topics on equity in the academy, Schoenberg, and teaching opera in prisons. Her book, Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement (University of Illinois Press, 2018) won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award from the American Musicological Society. Her other books include Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (2006), Blackness in Opera (2012, co-editor), African Performance Arts and Political Acts (2021, co-editor), and The Music of Mzilikazi Khumalo: Language, Culture, and Song in South Africa (2024, co-editor). She has edited clusters of articles in African Studies, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and the Journal of the American Musicological Society. In 2022 she testified before the US House Judiciary Committee supporting House Resolution 301, which would make “Lift Every Voice and Sing” a national hymn. During the 2022-2023 academic year she was the John E. Sawyer Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. She was the inaugural Scholar in Residence at the Seattle Opera (2019-2024) and is a founding member of the Black Opera Research Network (BORN).
Keynote Address II (Saturday 27 July 2024)
“The Potential of Operatic Spaces Today” by
Naomi André (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
@naomiandre67 is the David G. Frey Distinguished Professor in the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan in Afroamerican and African Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and the Residential College. Her degrees in Music are from Barnard College (BA) and Harvard University (MA, PhD). Her research focuses on opera and issues surrounding gender, voice, and race in the US, Europe, and South Africa. Her publications include topics on equity in the academy, Schoenberg, and teaching opera in prisons. Her book, Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement (University of Illinois Press, 2018) won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award from the American Musicological Society. Her other books include Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (2006), Blackness in Opera (2012, co-editor), African Performance Arts and Political Acts (2021, co-editor), and The Music of Mzilikazi Khumalo: Language, Culture, and Song in South Africa (2024, co-editor). She has edited clusters of articles in African Studies, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and the Journal of the American Musicological Society. In 2022 she testified before the US House Judiciary Committee supporting House Resolution 301, which would make “Lift Every Voice and Sing” a national hymn. During the 2022-2023 academic year she was the John E. Sawyer Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. She was the inaugural Scholar in Residence at the Seattle Opera (2019-2024) and is a founding member of the Black Opera Research Network (BORN).
Keynote Address I (Friday 26 July 2024)
“Sample a Look Back: Autoethnographic Reflections on Hiphopography, Language and Identity” by
Adam Haupt (University of Cape Town)
@adam.haupt.14 is Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Centre for Film & Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is co-editor of Neva Again: Hip-Hop Art, Activism and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa with Quentin Williams (UWC), Emile Jansen (Heal the Hood Project) and H. Samy Alim (UCLA, USA). Haupt is the author of Static: Race and Representation in Post-Apartheid Music, Media and Film and Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion. He is also Coordinating Editor of Global Hip Hop Studies with J. Griffith Rollefson (UCC, Ireland). He serves on the advisory board for the first Hip Hop Book Series by University of California Press and on the advisory board of CIPHER: Hip Hop Interpellation, which is funded by the European Research Council. He also serves on the editorial board of Drietalige Woordeboek van Kaaps. The National Research Foundation rates him a B2 scholar.
Keynote Address I (Friday 26 July 2024)
“Sample a Look Back: Autoethnographic Reflections on Hiphopography, Language and Identity” by
Adam Haupt (University of Cape Town)
@adam.haupt.14 is Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Centre for Film & Media Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is co-editor of Neva Again: Hip-Hop Art, Activism and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa with Quentin Williams (UWC), Emile Jansen (Heal the Hood Project) and H. Samy Alim (UCLA, USA). Haupt is the author of Static: Race and Representation in Post-Apartheid Music, Media and Film and Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-Hop Subversion. He is also Coordinating Editor of Global Hip Hop Studies with J. Griffith Rollefson (UCC, Ireland). He serves on the advisory board for the first Hip Hop Book Series by University of California Press and on the advisory board of CIPHER: Hip Hop Interpellation, which is funded by the European Research Council. He also serves on the editorial board of Drietalige Woordeboek van Kaaps. The National Research Foundation rates him a B2 scholar.
Conference registration is now open! To register online, go to the “Conferences” then “Register” tab on our website (link in bio)
Conference registration is now open! To register online, go to the “Conferences” then “Register” tab on our website (link in bio)
SASRIM’s 18th Annual Conference: 26 to 28 July 2024, hosted by @wits_music @wits__university @witsschoolofarts and @blackoperaresearchnetwork . Registration to open soon.
SASRIM’s 18th Annual Conference: 26 to 28 July 2024, hosted by @wits_music @wits__university @witsschoolofarts and @blackoperaresearchnetwork . Registration to open soon.
SASRIM 18TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2024
INVITATION AND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
The South African Society for Research in Music (@sasrimmusic ) invites contributions for its 2024 conference, co-hosted by the Wits Department of Music @wits_music and the Black Opera Research Network @blackoperaresearchnetwork . We envisage a hybrid event that will allow both in-person and online presentations. SASRIM welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics in music research, including those that explore disciplinary intersections, and the convergences and divergences between performance and/as research.
Proposals must be submitted through Google Forms by no later than 8 March 2024. No late submissions will be considered. [edit: please note that the deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to 15 March 2024]
Queries may be sent to abstracts@sasrim.ac.za. The programme committee expects to contact all applicants with a final decision by 8 April 2024.
For more info, follow the link in our bio.
SASRIM 18TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2024
INVITATION AND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
The South African Society for Research in Music (@sasrimmusic ) invites contributions for its 2024 conference, co-hosted by the Wits Department of Music @wits_music and the Black Opera Research Network @blackoperaresearchnetwork . We envisage a hybrid event that will allow both in-person and online presentations. SASRIM welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics in music research, including those that explore disciplinary intersections, and the convergences and divergences between performance and/as research.
Proposals must be submitted through Google Forms by no later than 8 March 2024. No late submissions will be considered. [edit: please note that the deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to 15 March 2024]
Queries may be sent to abstracts@sasrim.ac.za. The programme committee expects to contact all applicants with a final decision by 8 April 2024.
For more info, follow the link in our bio.
Some highlights from the SASRIM 17th Annual Conference, hosted by @chr_uwc . Thank you to everyone who attended for making it yet another successful conference!
Some highlights from the SASRIM 17th Annual Conference, hosted by @chr_uwc . Thank you to everyone who attended for making it yet another successful conference!
We’re looking forward to hosting our annual conference, starting tomorrow! Please note the conference venue is at the Greatmore Humanities Hub (Woodstock, Cape Town) at the @chr_uwc
We’re looking forward to hosting our annual conference, starting tomorrow! Please note the conference venue is at the Greatmore Humanities Hub (Woodstock, Cape Town) at the @chr_uwc
We are looking for a new Secretary!
The South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM) is seeking nominations to fill the position of Secretary in our Executive Committee. You can nominate yourself or someone else, provided they are willing to accept the nomination. Nominations can be drawn from the postgraduate student community, performers, composers, creatives, researchers, educators, or anyone wanting to serve the broader music studies and creative music/sound arts community in South Africa.
Application deadline: 25 June
Follow the link in our bio for the nomination requirements and procedure. We look forward to receiving your nominations!
We are looking for a new Secretary!
The South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM) is seeking nominations to fill the position of Secretary in our Executive Committee. You can nominate yourself or someone else, provided they are willing to accept the nomination. Nominations can be drawn from the postgraduate student community, performers, composers, creatives, researchers, educators, or anyone wanting to serve the broader music studies and creative music/sound arts community in South Africa.
Application deadline: 25 June
Follow the link in our bio for the nomination requirements and procedure. We look forward to receiving your nominations!
EXCITING OPPORTUNITY FOR EMERGING MUSIC PRODUCERS
@sasrimmusic is hosting a music production workshop alongside our annual conference later this year, hosted by the @chr_uwc at @uwconline from 25-27 August. During this exclusive workshop, emerging producers will have the opportunity to sharpen their music production skills under the guidance of renowned musician, composer and producer, @shanecoopersounds . There are only a few spaces left for participation in this fantastic opportunity, so get your applications in right away! Applicants may also apply for a bursary to support their attendance.
Application deadline: 15 June
Follow the link in our bio for the application procedure. We look forward to receiving your application!
EXCITING OPPORTUNITY FOR EMERGING MUSIC PRODUCERS
@sasrimmusic is hosting a music production workshop alongside our annual conference later this year, hosted by the @chr_uwc at @uwconline from 25-27 August. During this exclusive workshop, emerging producers will have the opportunity to sharpen their music production skills under the guidance of renowned musician, composer and producer, @shanecoopersounds . There are only a few spaces left for participation in this fantastic opportunity, so get your applications in right away! Applicants may also apply for a bursary to support their attendance.
Application deadline: 15 June
Follow the link in our bio for the application procedure. We look forward to receiving your application!