The dynamics of the interaction between music and society in recorded popular Afrikaans music, 1900 – 2015.

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis provides an analytical account of the interaction between political events andpopular music culture with specific reference to recorded Afrikaans music of the last 115years. It starts with the first recordings of Boer national anthems during the Anglo-Boer Warin 1900, and concludes with expressions of racial exclusivity in post-apartheid Afrikaans popmusic. It reveals cases of compliance with, as well as resistance to, the master narrative ofAfrikaner nationalism as it existed for most of the twentieth century, and gives examples ofhow these values persist in the present. By employing popular Afrikaans music as a lens, aclearer image of the agency of ordinary individuals (artists and listeners) emerges against abackground of fundamental societal and political change. Furthermore, by looking at popularAfrikaans music over a wide historical period, salient themes (for example class tension andthe ubiquitous efforts by cultural nationalist entrepreneurs to co-opt popular Afrikaans musicinto the Afrikaner nationalist project) in the development of Afrikaner culture over this periodare highlighted, which helps to historicise the invocation of Afrikaner nostalgia in postapartheidAfrikaans pop.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University