Time and space - The context of Hans Roosenschoon's music
Abstract
This essay pays tribute to Hans Roosenschoon who celebrated his 60th birthday in
December 2012. In contrast to conventional approaches that focus on local ideologies
and local political issues, the essay explores the context of Roosenschoon’s music from a
global and a historical perspective. Taking as point of departure the pluralist nature of
postmodernism, it investigates the interaction of cultural spaces, particularly those
occupied by ‘African’ and ‘Western’ musics. The entanglement of time and space is
shown to be manifest in complex, multifaceted contemporary musical worlds. In doing
so, the essay interrogates the conventional absence of the ‘voice’ of music in contextdriven
musicology. An approach that acknowledges music as an equal partner in the
musicological enterprise shows an alignment of Hans Roosenschoon’s music with global
trends and issues of his time.
Collections
- Faculty of Humanities [2022]
- TD: 2014 Volume 10 No 3 [7]
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