Musical meaning and metaphors of liminality in Coenie de Villiers’s song art
2024-03-27"This article aims to examine the Afrikaans singer Coenie de Villiers’s use of music-related metaphors in a selection of his lyrics to highlight the often elusive, liminal nature of the human condition."
Musikale betekenis en metafore van liminaliteit in die liedkuns van Coenie de Villiers
2024-03-27"Die doel van hierdie artikel is om ondersoek in te stel na die wyse waarop musieksimbole en -metafore in ’n aantal van Coenie de Villiers se lirieke gebruik word om die liminale aard van die menslike kondisie te beskryf."
MK as a cultural phenomenon: A documentation and thematic analysis of the channel’s rise and influence on the formation of marginal Afrikaner identity
2023-01-31"While the Afrikaans nostalgia brand foregrounded exclusivist ethnocentric tendencies associated with the 'De la Rey' subculture, Zef culture was seen as being supportive of a subversive, heterodox Afrikaner counterculture."
MK as kultuurverskynsel: ’n Dokumentering en tematiese ontleding van die kanaal se opkoms en invloed op die ontwikkeling van marginale Afrikaner-identiteite, 2005–2013
2023-01-31"Ons literatuur, onderhoude, asook argiefondersoek het die lied/video 'De la Rey' en Die Antwoord as sosiale verskynsel as twee van die mees invloedryke identiteite wat met MK vereenselwig is, na vore gebring. Deur MK se bemiddeling het beide verskynsels kultusstatus bereik."
"Look at me": Nataniël’s self-fashioning
2021-02-01"As (apparently) genderless outsider, Nataniël’s artistic meta-text thus simultaneously mediates exceptional visibility and invisibility. Such self-fashioning, underlining contrasting aspects of his persona, empowers him to engage in a wide range of role play."
"Kyk na my": die beeldvorming van Nataniël
2021-02-01"Terwyl sy artistieke (self)beeldvorming sy seksualiteit tegelyk beklemtoon en onderspeel, word hy in sekere kringe as ’n gay-ikoon gesien. Nietemin fokus sy vertellings en lirieke nie op homoërotiek as oorkoepelende tema nie, maar eerder op andersheid."
Hybridity and authenticity as cultural markers in the music of Nico Carstens
2018-12-11"The question on which we focus highlights the ways in which Carstens, both as a composer and as a piano accordion player, succeeded in enriching traditional boeremusiek idioms by way of the fusion of a variety of musical influences and styles in order to produce a stylised, yet highly accessible and marketable South African popular music identity."
Hibriditeit en outentisiteit as kulturele merkers in Nico Carstens se musiek
2018-12-11"Die vraag waarop daar gefokus word, belig die wyses waarop Carstens as komponis en trekklavierspeler daarin geslaag het om tradisionele boeremusiekidiome deur middel van ’n versmelting van verskillende musikale invloede en style te verryk tot ’n gestileerde, dog hoogs toeganklike en bemarkbare Suid-Afrikaanse populêre-musiek-identiteit."
Patriotic songs as ideological discourse: a figurative semiotic analysis
2017-11-02"The analysis therefore indicates that figurative expressions such as patriotic songs may act as powerful political instruments with a view to nation-building and the strengthening of ideological beliefs."
Patriotiese liedere as ideologiese diskoers: ’n figuratiewe semiotiese ontleding
2017-11-02"In hierdie opsig mag figuratiewe vorme soos patriotiese liedere, soos ons geredeneer het, kragtige politieke instrumente word ter vergestalting van nasiebou, -eenheid en -trots, en verteenwoordig dit op hierdie wyse 'betekenis in die diens van mag'."
Hans Huyssen’s Little Portrait of the World: Allegorical Wind Quintet with Narration (1993)
2015-10-08"The research question posed by the article focuses on the degree to which programmatic and symbolic elements of storytelling in Little Portrait aid in highlighting the composer’s commitment to matters of an existential nature."
Hans Huyssen se Little Portrait of the World: Allegorical Wind Quintet with Narration (1993)
2015-10-08Martina Viljoen en Nicol Viljoen ondersoek die mate waartoe programmatiese en simboliese elemente van storievertelling in Little Portrait meewerk om die komponis se verbintenis tot kwessies van ’n eksistensiële aard te belig.