Remembering Mgqumeni: Polyphonic Narratives of His Life and Music
Autor Dr. Kathryn Olsenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 mai 2026
Mgqumeni continues to have influence in the maskanda domain as musicians imitate his style in the quest for success in the marketplace. His name is referenced and appropriated by others in the field as a way of enticing audience support, and interest from the recording industry. Commercial maskanda is made and distributed through a cut-throat monopoly.
The book draws out a deeper understanding of the life experiences and aspirations of ordinary Zulu people through the creative presentation of multifaceted perspectives and agendas attached to the telling of Mgqumeni's story. It includes analysis and translation of the sound structures and the lyrics of Mgqumeni's music, which are used as a source of insight into his life experiences. The book takes a postcolonial stance in that it resists exoticizing or demonizing Zuluness but takes refuge in a transparent recognition of the author's role as both a stranger, and a compatriot.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798765124765
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
1. Introduction
2. Conceptualizing Mgqumeni's reality
3. From Poverty to Celebrity
4. A Life in Song
5. Epilogue: Remembering: Inserting the past into the present.
Bibliography
2. Conceptualizing Mgqumeni's reality
3. From Poverty to Celebrity
4. A Life in Song
5. Epilogue: Remembering: Inserting the past into the present.
Bibliography
Recenzii
The brilliant maskanda musician, popularly known as Mgqumani, has been called the South African Michael Jackson; and like Jackson, his luminous career was tragically cut short in his prime. Yet it could also be argued that Mgqumeni never died; that his voice remains vividly alive in the here and now. In this highly imaginative, innovative study, Kathryn Olsen shows that music uniquely enables such reincarnation, providing memory with sensuous synapses that traverse space and time, and make the past an active part of the present.
This book is a true reflection of the realities of what it takes to be a Maskanda Musician, this is also a piece that reveal what sometimes people in the Music industry shy away to talk about. This body of work depicts the ups and downs of the South African Music Industry, but also a showpiece which proves that against all odds it is possible to succeed. This book reveals uncomfortable truths about being a musician in a South African context especially a Maskanda musician.
Kathryn Olsen's extraordinary, multilayered text - the moving story of a brilliant young musician whose life was cut tragically short - is also a captivating and important book about maskanda, memory, cosmology, living and dead, belonging and unbelonging, and a world made unhomely by poverty and violence. In that world the remarkable has become normal. Was the wrong person was buried in place of Mgqumeni? Is he really a crocodile? Is he risen from the dead? Has his zombified spirit entered the body of another? Why Professor 3 Seconds? Close encounters at the boundary between the real and the unreal are the riveting contexts of Mgqumeni's songs, with their negotiation of different and simultaneous identities, their representations of a dichotomous world, their heart-rending expressions of his fear, sorrow and pain, and their visceral awareness of the ever-present possibility of his death.
This book is a true reflection of the realities of what it takes to be a Maskanda Musician, this is also a piece that reveal what sometimes people in the Music industry shy away to talk about. This body of work depicts the ups and downs of the South African Music Industry, but also a showpiece which proves that against all odds it is possible to succeed. This book reveals uncomfortable truths about being a musician in a South African context especially a Maskanda musician.
Kathryn Olsen's extraordinary, multilayered text - the moving story of a brilliant young musician whose life was cut tragically short - is also a captivating and important book about maskanda, memory, cosmology, living and dead, belonging and unbelonging, and a world made unhomely by poverty and violence. In that world the remarkable has become normal. Was the wrong person was buried in place of Mgqumeni? Is he really a crocodile? Is he risen from the dead? Has his zombified spirit entered the body of another? Why Professor 3 Seconds? Close encounters at the boundary between the real and the unreal are the riveting contexts of Mgqumeni's songs, with their negotiation of different and simultaneous identities, their representations of a dichotomous world, their heart-rending expressions of his fear, sorrow and pain, and their visceral awareness of the ever-present possibility of his death.