Graduates

 

2025

PhD’s:

  • Deon Liebenberg, ‘Gereformeerdheid, modernisme en abstraksie in Leo Theron se werk in glas vir die Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk’, supervisor: Prof. Stephanus Muller. https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132029 
  • Irma Liebenberg, ‘Die buitenetwerk van Afrikaanse vroue-kinderliedjiekomponiste: ‘n biografie van konneksies’, supervisor: Prof. Willemien Froneman.

Master’s: 

  • Rudolph Joorst, ‘The history of the Moravian Brass Band Union of South Africa (BBSA) as told through the personal histories of members, and its contemporary role in the Moravian Church in South Africa (MCSA).’, supervisor: Prof. Stephanus Muller. https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132007

2024

PhD’s:

Master’s: 

  • Brent January, ‘Reading Darius Brubeck’s The Maskanda: thoughts on decolonization and music.’, supervisor: Prof. Stephanus Muller. https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/131680

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. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/110282
  • 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. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/109103
  • 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. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/105193

     

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: