Subject to minor changes/adjustments during the semester.

For detailed syllabus for every class check MS Teams.

21 Feb - So what does it mean to decolonize African music?

Ndaliko 2021

28 Feb - Decolonizing knowledge from "the global south"

Mbembe 2015 / Camaroff and Comaroff 2009 / Mignolo 2009

Audio/video: Desai 2018 / Kaganof 2016

6 March - Decolonizing music studies. Is it possible?

Venter et al. 2018

Audio/video: Kaganof 2014

13 March - "African music", "African rhythm" and tonality in Africa

Agawu 1995, 2016, 2008 / Pooley 2018

Audio/video: Agawu's lectures

20 March - Sheet music - white music? On South African choral music

Lucia 2008, 2011, 2014

Audio/video: African Composers Edition

27 March - Composing African music (for string quartet)

Koapeng 2014 / Volans n. d., 1986 / Biko 2002 (1978)

Audio/video: The Bow Project / Volans 1981, 1982, 1986

3 April - Opera in Cape Town, white but not quite

Roos 2018 / Pistorius 2017, 2019

Audio/video: Kaganof 2013

10 April - Jazz against segregation and apartheid

Ballantine 2012 (1993) / Allen 2002 / Dalamba 2018

Audio/video: Ballantine 2012 / Rogosin 1959

17 April - Whose jazz? Jazz historiography from South Africa

Muller 2007, 2011 / Dalamba 2019 / Ramanna 2016

Audio/video: Yon 2010

24 April - Aestehtics of freedom in South African electronic music

Steingo 2016

Audio/video: Kaganof 2003

1 May - No class, public holidays in the Czech Republic

8 May - No class, public holidays in the Czech Republic

15 May - Final discussion

Presentation of the final paper's material and main arguments is going to take place during the exam period. The date will be announced upon mutual agreement.