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1. From Poetry to Floetry: Music's Influence in the Spoken Word Art of Young South Africa.

Author

Molebatsiv, Natalia and d'Abdon, Raphael

Subjects
*MUSIC, *POETRY (Literary form), *SOUND recordings, *YOUNG artists, *MUSICIANS
Abstract

The current pattern around music created by young spoken word artists in South Africa makes one think of musicality as a strong influence and force in today's poetry; from accompanying bands of instruments at live performances, to CD recordings with background music and experimental projects. Musicality within the observed poetry goes beyond the traditional praise poet's voice and love for percussions, but validates these poets as musicians in their own right - writing, arranging and performing words to musical instruments and time. This phenomenon is increasingly making music and the art of spoken word inseparable. These two forms of expressions (spoken word and music) are being woven together by these artists in ways that build a mutual partnership and bridging the gap between what is sung and what is spoken. This paper therefore, aims to analyse the musical traces of few selected productions recently released on CDs by some of South Africa's youngest and most talented spoken word artists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007
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2. Self and Community in the Poetry of Arthur Nortje: A Symptomatic Reading.

Author

Klopper, Dirk

Subjects
*POETRY (Literary form), *ALIENATION (Rhetoric), *PRACTICAL politics, *IMMIGRANTS
Abstract

Many studies of Arthur Nortje's poetry have commented on the prevalence in his work of images of alienation, seeing this as a function either of political conditions in South Africa in his lifetime or of Nortje's exile from his home country. In this paper, I maintain that Nortje's depictions of alienation are more fundamental than suggested by earlier studies, inasmuch as his depictions point to primordial loss as constitutive of identity. I argue that because identity is posited in relation to the other, it is inescapably a function of division and displacement, and suggest that as a result of his specific history, Nortje was more directly aware of this dynamic than most. Nortje's self-reflexive awareness of the paradoxes of identity formation emerges in what I identify as symptomatic forms of communication that cut across, and mutually implicate, the life and the work. In support of my argument, the paper uses as its material two poems, one written shortly before Nortje's departure from South Africa in 1965, the other written shortly before his death in exile in 1970. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2004
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