Main Article Content

The projecting of musical and extra-musical elements in constructing choral identity with specific reference to three South African regional children’s choirs


Rudi Bower
Jan-Erik Swart

Abstract

This article explores how three regional children’s choirs and their practitioners, from different provinces of South Africa, project a distinctly South African choral identity that they themselves construct by fabricating a mental representation of themselves, through the identification, organisation and interpretation of particular musical and non-musical elements. It is ultimately argued that each of the three choirs – The Eastern Cape Children’s Choir, Cantare Children’s Choir and the Tygerberg Children’s Choir – projects its own unique choral identity, which is inclusively South African.


Journal Identifiers


eISSN: 2070-626X
print ISSN: 1812-1004