Graduates

2024

PhD’s:

2023

PhD’s:

  • Nduduzo Makhathini, ‘Breaking into sound: dis/locating Ntu cosmology and improvisation in South African jazz’, supervisors: Prof. Stephanus Muller, Dr Stephanie Vos and Dr Uhuru Phalafala. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/127007 

Master’s: 

  • Lindsay Friday, ‘Queer electronic rave rapping Zulu princesses don’t grow on trees’: a digital ethnography of Toya Delazy’s curated persona as a South African popular musician on Instagram’, supervisor: Dr Marc Röntsch. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/127330  
  • Anke Froehlich, ‘Copyriot: the political economy of digital music streaming’, supervisors Prof. Lizabé Lambrechts and Prof. Willemien Froneman. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/127373  
  • Pakama Ncume, ‘Being public: musicians and the Market Theatre Cafe, 1976 – 1980’, supervisor: Prof Lizabé Lambrechts. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/127235 

2022

PhD’s:

2021

PhD’s:

  • Angie Mullins, ‘Future-Focussed Music Education: Developing 21st-Century Competencies in a South African Middle School Music Classroom’, supervisor: Prof. Christine Lucia. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/110269   
  • Visser Liebenberg, ‘Artistic experimentation through decolonial sound projects for clarinet’, supervisors: Prof. Stephanus Muller and Dr Esther Marie Pauw. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/110311 

Master’s: 

  • Féroll-Jon Davids, ‘Gordon Jephtas (1943-1992), A coloured life in opera’, supervisors: Dr Hilde Roos and Dr Carina Venter. 
  • Zayne Upton, ‘Towards a Model for Digital Scholarly Editions in South Africa’, supervisor: Prof. Christine Lucia. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123819  
  • Marco Nachenius, ‘Notating Extreme Metal: A Practice-Led Approach’, supervisor: Dr Marc Röntsch. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/109964  

2020

PhD’s:

  • Santie de Jongh, ‘Music and Militarisation during the period of the South African Border War (1966-1989): Perspectives from Paratus’, supervisor: Prof. Stephanus Muller. 
  • Grace Talabi, ‘A study of the music and social meaning of selected choral works from Dayọ̀ Oyedun’s cantatas’, supervisors: Prof Stephanus Muller and Dr Paula Fourie. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/107884   

Master’s: 

  • Ashrudeen Waggie, ‘“It’s just a matter of time”: African American musicians and the Cultural Boycott in South Africa, 1968-1983’, supervisors: Dr Lizabé Lambrechts and Dr Chet Fransch (History). 

2019

PhD’s:

  • Annemie Behr, ‘Constructing a history from music reportage: Jewish musical life in South Africa, 1930-1948.’, supervisor: Prof Stephanus Muller. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/107884  

2018

PhD’s:

  • Wayne Muller, ‘A reception history of opera in Cape Town: Tracing the development of a distinctly South African operatic aesthetic (1985–2015)’, supervisor: Prof Stephanus Muller.  

Master’s: 

  • Beatrix Kirsten, ‘Reading the Paratext: Leib Kirschner’s Cantorial Anthology of 1910’, supervisor: Dr Hilde Roos. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/105053  
  • Oladele Ayorinde, ‘Dizu Plaatjies and the Amampondo: Music, Agency and Social Transformation’, supervisor: Prof Stephanus Muller. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103371  
  • Nduduzo Makhathini, ‘Encountering Bheki Mseleku: a Biographical-analytical consideration of his life and music’, supervisors: Dr Stephanie Vos, Dr Jonathan Eato (University of York) and Prof. Stephanus Muller. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103795  
  • Kyle Shepherd, Interrogating the own: a practise-based, auto-ethnographic reflection on musical creation with reference to the work of Abdullah Ibrahim, Zim Ngqawana and Kyle Shepherd, supervisors: Dr Stephanie Vos, Dr Jonathan Eato (University of York) and Prof Stephanus Muller. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103764  

2017

PhD’s:

  • Claudia Jansen van Rensburg, ‘Perspectives on musical strategies of settlement and migration: four case studies from the Western Cape, South Africa’, supervisors: Prof Stephanus Muller and Dr Thomas Cousins. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/102646
  • Marc Röntsch, ‘An Anthology of Existence: Explorations into the Life and Works of Christopher Langford James (1952 – 2008)’, supervisor: Prof Stephanus Muller. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/102614  
  • Jackie Bullindah, ‘Creative processes in generating theatrical music for plays in Kenya’, supervisors: Prof Stephanus Muller and Prof Emily Akuno (The Co-operative University of Kenya). http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/102652  

Master’s: