The Egazini – ILAM Community Outreach Project 2024
UMHLAHLO – Musical Experience
Sun, 23 June 2024 – 16:00 - Nombulelo Hall, Joza, Makhanda (in collaboration with the National Arts Festival)
Sat, 29th June 2024, 16:00 - Indoor Sport Centre, Joza, Makhanda
Performances by
Nox - Konke – Lelamanyange - Vumza - DJ Deep
DJ Ayzoman - Ozman DeKompozer - Bhod’lingqaka
This exciting 60 minutes performance by Makhanda artists is part of a community outreach and research project on musical creativity and cultural heritage. The show takes recordings of Xhosa groups from the archive of the International Library of African Music back to their communities.
As part of the research project “Beyond the Digital Return” of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence the International Library of African Music (ILAM) has been engaged in working with the Egazini Outreach Community Centre and Makhanda DJs, poets, and performing artists to creatively reinterpret and remix Xhosa music and songs from the ILAM archives. Originally recorded by Hugh Tracey in the 1950s and 60s, in this project the artists are giving them a contemporary meaning and create new sounds for the ILAM remix project as well.
Supported by the Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies and ILAM
Production Credits
Artistic directors
Sisonke Yafele - Konke
Ntomboxolo Donyeli - Nox
Bongani Diko
Scholary advisors/production
Dr. Lee Watkins, ILAM, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa
Elijah Madiba, ILAM, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa
Dr. Markus Coester, Anthropology of Music, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Bayreuth/Germany