SYMPOSIUM PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME
Friday 4 February 2011
09:30	Stephanie Vos, Henrike Grohs, Florian Uhlig
	Welcome
	SESSION 1: Contexts of Music and Exile
10:00	Chats Devroop
	Keynote address
11:00	TEA
	SESSION 2: Debates in Music and Exile  Session chair: Stephanus Muller
11:30	Jean-Pierre de la Porte
	Can musicology think about exile?
12:30	Carina Venter
	The Exilic Fallacy: articulating Exile in a “damage culture”
13:00	LUNCH
	SESSION 3: States of songs: past and present Session chair: Chats Devroop
14:00	Liz Gunner
	Songs of the Soldier, Songs of the Citizen-to-be — a glance at recent South African History
14:30	David Coplan
	Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika and Africa's Transcendant Aspirations
15:00	TEA
	SESSION 4: Sound worlds: crossing cultures Session chair: Pamela Tancsik
15:30	Xoli Norman
	Exile, memory and the state of blackness in the sonic landscape
16:00	Philip Miller
	The making of the music for William Kentridge’s Black Box/Chambre Noire
17:00	END
18:30	Pre-concert talk at the Wits Theatre: Dr Albrecht Dümling
19:30	Café Berlin' concert at the Wits Theatre: Songs of Eisler, Brecht, Spoliansky and Weill.
	Performed by Eva Meier (Voice) and Paul Cibis (Piano)

* Please note that the programme is subject to change

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME (continued)

Saturday 5 February 2011
	SESSION 5: International connections: perspectives from global musical exile Session chair: Jean-Pierre de la Porte
09:00	Thomas Braun
	Karlheinz Stockhausen's vocal music in the context of music and exile
09:30	Albrecht Dümling
	Hollywood, a place for elegies: Brecht and Eisler in exile
10:30	TEA
	SESSION 6: Panel discussion: In conversation: musicians' experiences of exile
11:00	Chats Devroop, Dorothy Masuka, Abigail Kubeka, Roger Lucey, Steve Gordon
12:30	LUNCH
	SESSION 7: King Kong connections Session chair: Stephanie Vos
13:30	Pamela Tancsik
	The musical King Kong: A story of success, exile and revival
14:00	Lindelwa Dalamba and Sazi Dlamini
	Mbaqanga in the makings of a (South) African musical diaspora: the case of Gwigwi Mrwebi’s Band in England
14:30	Stephanus Muller
	Stanley Glasser's Songs of Exile
15:00	TEA
	SESSION 8: Exchanging the groove: Styles of jazz and exile Session chair: Akhona Ndzuta
15:30	Lefifi Tladi
	A comparative study of South African jazz in exile – Comparing the contribution of South African musicians in Europe versus the South African musicians based in America
16:00	Bongani Madondo
	Mbizo, In-TENSE Brotherhood, African Rituals and the stylistic impact of The Blue Notes and The Brotherhood Of Breath On European Free Jazz
16:30	Closing
16:45	END

SYMPOSIUM UPDATE

Music and Exile: Songs, Styles and Subtexts
4 and 5 February 2011, 9:00-17:00

Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg

The Goethe-Institut in partnership with the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival invites you to the Music and Exile: Songs, Styles and Subtexts Symposium of 2011, a follow-up on 2010’s Music and Exile: North-South Narratives Symposium. The engaging discussions about music and exile that had opened up at the 2010 symposium will be continued in 2011, but with an emphasis on the role of songs in South African and global exile. The programme includes presentations and discussions by scholars, performers and composers, and covers wide variety of musical styles, including Western art music, jazz and popular music.

On the local front, the programme will feature a discussion led by Chats Devroop with musicians Dorothy Masuka, Abigail Kubeka, Roger Lucey and Steve Gordon about their experiences of exile. A session is devoted to the musical connections between South Africa and the United Kingdom that were forged through the South African jazz opera King Kong (performed in London in 1961), a key event that marked the first step not only to international careers but also to exile for many musicians, including figures like Miriam Makeba.

Casting the net slightly wider, the symposium will also reflect on instances of international exile such as German musician Eisler and writer Brecht’s exile in Hollywood during the Second World War, and the impact of the Second World War and ideas of exile on some of Stockhausen’s vocal compositions. Furthermore, the contexts and debates in international and local exile, the impact that cultural exchanges resulting from exile have on musical styles, as well as specific instances of music, place and displacement will be explored.

The line-up of speakers include, among others, Xoli Norman (writer and composer), Philip Miller (composer), Lefifi Tladi (composer, poet and artist), Jean-Pierre de la Porte (philosopher and research director at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Infrastructure), Chats Devroop (Tshwane University of Technology), David Coplan (University of the Witwatersrand), Stephanus Muller (Stellenbosch University) as well as the German musicologist and music critic, Albrecht Dümling.

Members of the public are welcome and attendance is free. Kindly send an e-mail to reserve your place at the symposium to dpt@johannesburg.goethe.org. For more information, e-mail Stephanie Vos or Akhona Ndzuta at musicandexile@gmail.com.

A concert featuring the songs of Brecht, Eisler and Weill performed by Eva Meier and Paul Cibis on 4 February 2011 at 19:30 at the Wits Theatre, preceded by a pre-concert talk by Albrecht Dümling. For more information on the concert, visit www.join-mozart-festival.org.

SONGS, STYLES AND SUB-TEXTS SYMPOSIUM

MUSIC AND EXILE: SONGS, STYLES AND SUB-TEXTS SYMPOSIUM

4 and 5 February 2011, 9:00-17:00

Goethe-Institute, Johannesburg

The Music and Exile: Songs, Styles and Sub-texts Symposium is a follow-up on 2010’s Music and Exile: North-South Narratives Symposium. The rich discussions about music and exile that had opened up at the 2010 symposium will be continued in 2011, but with an emphasis on the role of songs in South African and global exile. The programme includes presentations and discussions by scholars, performers and composers, and covers wide variety of musical styles, including Western art music, jazz, South African traditional and pop music.

Some themes that will be considered are the contexts and debates in international and local exile, and the impact that cultural exchanges resulting from exile has on musical styles, particularly on jazz. On the local front, the programme will feature a panel discussion with musicians Roger Lucey and Steve Gordon about their experiences of exile.  A session is devoted to the musical connections between South Africa and the United Kingdom effected by South African musicians’ exile, including presentations on the South African jazz opera King Kong that was performed in London in 1961 (which for many musicians marked the first step to exile), Gwigwi Mrwebi and the adaptations of mbaqanga in the United Kingdom and Stanley Glasser’s Songs of Exile. To cast the net slightly wider than the local, the symposium will also reflect on instances of international exile such as German musician Eisler and writer Brecht’s exile in Hollywood during the Second World War, and the impact of the Second World War on some of Stockhausen’s vocal compositions.

The line-up of speakers include, among others, Albrecht Dümling (founder of the internationally acclaimed ‘Entartete Musik’ project), Sophia Serghi (composer from Cyprus), Mokale Koapeng (Johannesburg-based composer), Lefifi Tladi (composer, poet and artist), Jean-Pierre de la Porte, Chats Devroop (Tshwane University of Technology) and David Coplan (University of the Witwatersrand).

Members of the public are welcome and attendance is free. Kindly send an e-mail to reserve your place at the symposium to dpt@johannesburg.goethe.org.

The Music and Exile Symposium forms part of the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival, and is linked to a concert featuring the songs of Brecht, Eisler and Weill performed by Eva Meier and Paul Cibis on 4 February 2011 at the Wits Theatre. For more information on the concert and the symposium, visit www.join-mozart-festival.org.

Background on the Symposium

The Music and Exile Symposia form part of the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival (JIMF) and are held in partnership with the Goethe-Institute.  The Johannesburg International Mozart Festival is a concert series that has taken place in Johannesburg annually since 2006 and the first symposium held in conjunction with the JIMF concert series was in 2010. The Symposia provide a ‘think-tank’ around topics related to the JIMF concert series and are intended to generate ideas and stimulate initiatives for future JIMF events. This approach strives to establish a productive dialogue between music practice and music writing and debate.

How does Mozart fit in? Constantly pushing the boundaries, departing from and developing the canon and creating new frameworks of experimentation, Mozart regarded almost anything as an invitation for his creative genius and even today remains one of the most versatile yet profound musical figures of all times: as composer, arranger, performer, conductor, teacher, writer, commentator and scholar. It is the ambition of the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival to reflect upon Mozart’s genius and ingenuity and to create a setting that might translate at least some of Mozart’s truly inspiring characteristics into the twenty-first century. The Music and Exile Symposia proceed from this philosophy of innovation, and aim to traverse the boundaries that frequently exist between different music genres, disciplines and discourses.

Visit www.join-mozart-festival.org for more information about the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival and the Music and Exile Symposium, and visit www.goethe.de/johannesburg for more information about the Goethe-Institute.