Tesis sobre el tema "21st century drama texts"

Thesis (MA)--Macquarie University (Division of Humanities, Department of English), 2006.
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in English in the Division of Humanities, Dept. of English, 2006. Bibliography: p. 199-210.

The Other Woman is an eighty-minute stage play which asks the question: Do women really play the political game differently? A high-flying politician can't admit to a small mistake. A woman kills herself. Does her mother want justice or revenge? Banana Split is a ninety-minute comedy for two actors which investigates life after divorce, the connections between risk and reward, and the implications of doubling (or coupling). The play asks a number of questions: Is it riskier to stay or to go? Which is the more damaging to a relationship-nostalgia for a golden age or the fantasy of a perfect future? Awa’ the Crow Road is a half-hour play for radio. Two brothers are brought to Australia from Scotland, as children. Their father tells them;' We're here. We're Australian. We're not going back.' One brother goes back 10 Scotland. never to return. The other stays in Australia, never to leave. Thirty years pass. They meet again when their father is 'awa' the crow road'. The essay, Writing the end, examines selected literary and performance theory on endings from the perspective of the playwright who must write the end but avoid 'a strangulation'. Later sections of the essay use the endings of the three plays that make up the creative project, to illustrate more specific aspects of writing the end.

The focus of this thesis is contemporary Polish playwriting after Poland's accession to the European Union in 2004. From a broad reading of plays by many new writers, four playwrights were selected for study on the basis of prominence and artistic merit: Pawel Demirski, Dorota Maslowska, Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk and Przemys law Wojcieszek. Their plays were studied as texts and in performance, and twelve main plays became the focus of closer analysis. The thesis identifies and examines three major concurrent themes in the works of these playwrights. Remembering versus forgetting the past is discussed through the lens of selected aspects of memory studies, including Nora's lieux de mémoire, Hirsch's postmemory and Assman's mnemohistory. The playwrights are shown to share an endorsement of the de-politicisation of collective memory and to advocate a cessation of the passing down of trauma to post-war generations. The human body is highlighted as another concurrent thematic concern and is illuminated by certain tenets of Catholic doctrine as well as Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. The playwrights' rejection of the tabooisation of the body is demonstrated and the shared notion of the body as both sentient and unifying is exemplified. Social marginalisation is examined as the final concern, with an emphasis on the notion of the 'other', particularly in relation to socio-economic status, sexuality, and religious beliefs. The plays are shown to support and promote a rejection of the myth of homogeneity in favour of openness to diversity. Major dramatic techniques are then closely examined. It is demonstrated that the plays share traits with Lehmann's theory of postdramatic theatre, including a rejection of Aristotelian unities. Key commonalities are evidenced, particularly comedy, bad language, intertextualities with the outside world, and an engagement with Polish social realities. The playwrights' approach to the spectator as a socio-political being is shown to be of paramount importance.

His Story takes the form of a fictive but autobiographically based investigation into the child and young adult I used to be, and follows that protagonist into early adulthood. It tries to show the damage done to that character and the way in which he damaged others in turn. As Hemingway said, We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. More importantly, the main protagonist is somebody who became concerned with, and cognizant of the main political and social events of his day. His life is set in its social context, and reaches out to the larger issues. That is to say, the personal events of the protagonist's life are recorded alongside and set in the context of the major events taking place on the world stage. The manuscript is some sort of hybrid of novel, autobiography, and historical and social document. As Isaac Bashevis Singer said, The serious writer of our time must be deeply concerned about the problems of his generation. In order to make His Story effective in sharing my ideas and beliefs, and, of course, in order to protect the innocent and more particularly, the guilty, it is created in the colourful area that is the overlap between memory and fiction. When we tell the stories of our lives to others, and indeed, to ourselves, we prise them out of memory's fingers and transform them into fiction. To write autobiography well, as E.L. Doctorow said, you have to invent everything, even memory.

This thesis is an attempt to portray the birth of British modern drama and the most important figures breaking its new ground; more to the point, to shed light on the second generation of British dramatists breaking what G.B. Shaw used to call ‘middle-class morality’. The focal point here is fixed on Stephen Poliakoff, one of the distinctive dramatists in contemporary British theatre, his work and the dramatic tinge he adds to the new drama.
Doctorat en Langues et lettres
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Dans le contexte de la postmodernité, la question de l’écriture de l’histoire est devenue essentielle. « Tournant épistémologique » chez les historiens, « fiction métahistorique » chez les écrivains : cela semble témoigner d’une « conscience métahistorique » qui touche aujourd’hui les sociétés occidentales dans leur ensemble, invitant à penser l’histoire comme un palimpseste d’interprétations subjectives et contradictoires. L’Espagne, traversée par de récents conflits mémoriels, n’est pas en reste. Tout en cherchant à identifier les modalités et les enjeux de cette tendance métahistorique, cette thèse s’interroge sur la place du théâtre espagnol contemporain à l’intérieur de ce phénomène. Après voir retracé les évolutions des notions « métahistoire » et « fiction métahistorique », ce travail s’ouvre sur un premier chapitre proposant une ébauche de l’histoire de la métahistoire en Occident, étendue à l’historiographie, à l’art et au champ sociétal – limitée pour ce dernier à l’époque contemporaine. Si le phénomène métahistorique est loin d’être nouveau, la conscience métahistorique qui lui donne une force et une cohérence inédites semble se cristalliser dans le dernier tiers du xxe siècle. L’Espagne possède ses spécificités, liées notamment à l’héritage de la guerre civile et du franquisme. Ce chapitre s’achève sur un volet théorique où sont précisés des outils d’analyse pour la fiction métahistorique et une typologie (fiction métahistorique métafictionnelle ; fiction métahistorique historiographique), tout en envisageant quelques particularités du genre dramatique.L’examen, dans un second chapitre, d’une dizaine de pièces espagnoles écrites ces trente dernières années ‒ El retablo de Eldorado, Naufragios de Álvar Núñez, Lope de Aguirre, traidor et El sudario de tiza de J. Sanchis Sinisterra, ¡¡¡Tierraaaa… a… laaaa… vistaaa…!!! de M. Martínez Mediero, Yo tengo un tío en América d’A. Boadella, Retrato de gran almirante con perros de L. Riaza, Yo, maldita india… et El arquitecto y el relojero de J. López Mozo, El jardín quemado et La tortuga de Darwin de J. Mayorga, et Homenaje a los Malditos d’E. Calonge ‒ montre que le dispositif métahistorique se manifeste dans des dramaturgies variées. Ce corpus présente néanmoins une réelle unité : en écho à la préoccupation historiographique et sociétale actuelle pour l’écriture de l’histoire, il s’offre comme une manifestation artistique originale de la conscience métahistorique contemporaine, dans les particularités de l’aire espagnole. Ces textes semblent refléter par ailleurs l’affirmation progressive de la fiction métahistorique qui s’affranchit peu à peu de la fiction historique et de la métafiction. À l’heure où Clio est ramenée sur la scène des hommes, déconstruite et démythifiée, ces dramaturges n’en font pas moins acte de mémoire et offrent des espaces d’expression aux mémoires en souffrance. Résolument postmoderne, la fiction métahistorique contemporaine ne verse pas dans le nihilisme : elle démantèle les discours historiques pour mieux les comprendre ; elle les déconstruit pour proposer d’autres évocations du passé
In the context of postmodernism, history writing has become a crucial issue. Called “epistemological turn” by historians and “metahistorical fiction” by writers, such a tendency is the proof of a “metahistorical awareness” which arises nowadays in Western societies as a whole, inviting to consider history as a palimpsest of subjective and conflicting interpretations. Affected by recent memory conflicts, Spain is primarily concerned. This study wishes to identify the modalities and stakes of such metahistorical tendency while wondering about the place of contemporary Spanish drama within this phenomenon. After retracing the evolution of both notions of “metahistory” and “metahistorical fiction”, this dissertation opens on a first chapter sketching out a history of Western metahistory, extended to the historiographic, artistic and societal fields (choosing to limit the latter to the contemporary period). If the metahistorical phenomenon is not new, metahistorical awareness which provides it with an original strength and coherence seems to crystallize over the last part of the 20th century. Spain has its own specificities ‒ especially due to the legacy of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship. This chapter ends on a theoretical part offering analytic tools for metahistorical fiction and a typology (metafictional metahistorical fiction, historiographic metahistorical fiction), and also considers some particularities of the dramatic genre.The second chapter is the study of around ten Spanish dramas written over the past thirty years: El retablo de Eldorado, Naufragios de Álvar Núñez, Lope de Aguirre, traidor and El sudario de tiza by J. Sanchis Sinisterra, ¡¡¡Tierraaaa… a… laaaa… vistaaa…!!! by M. Martínez Mediero, Yo tengo un tío en América by A. Boadella, Retrato de gran almirante con perros by L. Riaza, Yo, maldita india… and El arquitecto y el relojero by J. López Mozo, El jardín quemado and La tortuga de Darwin by J. Mayorga, and Homenaje a los Malditos by E. Calonge. If it uses the metahistorical device through various dramaturgies, this corpus presents, however, a real unity: reminding of present-day historiographic and societal concerns in history writing, it becomes an original artistic manifestation of contemporary metahistorical awareness, exploring more closely the Spanish particularities. These texts also seem to reflect the progressive affirmation of metahistorical fiction which gradually parts from historical fiction and metafiction. As Clio is brought back to the humans’ stage, deconstructed and demystified, these playwrights do an “act of memory” and offer spaces of expression to traumatic memories. Contemporary metahistorical fiction, though definitely postmodern, is not nihilist: it dismantles historical discourses in order to better understand them; it deconstructs them in order to offer other evocations of the past
En el contexto de la posmodernidad, el tema de la escritura de la historia se ha vuelto esencial. “Giro epistemológico” para los historiadores, “ficción metahistórica” para los escritores: todo ello parece dar cuenta de una “consciencia metahistórica” que hoy toca a todas las sociedades occidentales, e invita a percibir la historia como un palimpsesto de interpretaciones subjetivas y contradictorias. España, afectada por recientes conflictos de memoria, no escapa a la regla. Esta tesis intenta identificar las modalidades y las implicaciones de esta tendencia metahistórica, analizando asimismo la posición del teatro español dentro de este fenómeno.Después de recordar las evoluciones de las nociones “metahistoria” y “ficción metahistórica”, este trabajo se abre con un primer capítulo que propone un esbozo de la historia de la metahistoria en Occidente, extendida a los campos de la historiografía, el arte y la sociedad –y limitada en este último aspecto a la época contemporánea. Si el fenómeno metahistórico no es nuevo, la consciencia metahistórica que le da una fuerza y una coherencia inéditas parecen cristalizarse en el último tercio del siglo XX. España tiene sus especificidades, estrechamente vinculadas con la herencia de la guerra civil y el franquismo. Este capítulo se cierra con una parte teórica que precisa unas herramientas para el análisis de la ficción metahistórica y una tipología (ficción metahistórica metaficcional; ficción metahistórica historiográfica), y enfoca algunas particularidades del género teatral. El examen, en un segundo capítulo, de doce dramas españoles escritos en las tres últimas décadas ‒El retablo de Eldorado, Naufragios de Álvar Núñez, Lope de Aguirre, traidor y El sudario de tiza de J. Sanchis Sinisterra, ¡¡¡Tierraaaa… a… laaaa… vistaaa…!!! de M. Martínez Mediero, Yo tengo un tío en América de A. Boadella, Retrato de gran almirante con perros de L. Riaza, Yo, maldita india… y El arquitecto y el relojero de J. López Mozo, El jardín quemado y La tortuga de Darwin de J. Mayorga, y Homenaje a los Malditos de E. Calonge‒ muestra que el dispositivo metahistórico puede manifestarse en obras muy diferentes. El corpus presenta sin embargo una fuerte unidad: aparece, conforme a la preocupación historiográfica y social actual para la escritura de la historia, como una manifestación artística original de la consciencia metahistórica contemporánea, ateniéndose a las particularidades españolas. Además, los textos parecen reflejar la afirmación progresiva de la ficción metahistórica, que poco a poco se independiza de la ficción histórica y la metaficción. Aunque llevan a Clío al escenario de los hombres, deconstruída y desmitificada, estos dramaturgos no dejan de realizar un acto de memoria y ofrecen unos espacios de expresión a las memorias negadas. Resueltamente posmoderna, la ficción metahistórica contemporánea no cede al nihilismo: deshace los discursos históricos para entenderlos mejor; los deconstruye para proponer otras evocaciones del pasado

El estudio de las nuevas tendencias dramatúrgicas contemporáneas no se encuentra alejado de todo lo político y social que está gestándose en la sociedad occidental actual. Los cambios producidos en este comienzo de milenio debido, en gran parte, a las luchas de poder entre lo nuevo y lo tradicional, han originado unas luchas entre todos los ciudadanos que están más o menos vinculados al mundo de la cultura. Por este motivo, este estudio muestra todos esos cambios a través de una mirada crítica a la sociedad, no por el mero hecho de mostrarse escéptico con toda la realidad que rodea a esta época, sino por tratar de una manera dura y rigurosa los tópicos que rodean a los nuevos creadores. Para concretar estas nuevas tendencias en un solo nombre y a raíz de lo expuesto a lo largo del trabajo, la aproximación a su dramaturgia y los ensayos académicos, Juan Mayorga ha estudiado en su creación una visión crítica y filosófica de la sociedad, así como una desconfianza a las palabras y verdades establecidas a lo largo de la tradición. Juan Mayorga se ha convertido en un autor atrayente para los académicos por su lenguaje dramático y su puesta en escena. Su trabajo como dramaturgo y su reciente inclusión en la Real Academia Española le confieren un mérito lingüístico y filosófico que impregna todo su trabajo como dramaturgo. Los espectadores que asisten a sus eventos teatrales han de entrar en el juego político-teatral que él mismo propone.
The study of the new contemporary dramaturgical tendencies is not far from everything political and social which occurs in the western society. The changes produced in this beginning of the millennium due, in large part, to the clash of cultures between the new and the traditional, have led to struggles among all citizens who are linked to the culture world. For this reason, this study shows all these changes through a critical look at society, not just keeping skeptical of all this reality what surround this time, but treating in a extensive and rigorous way the topics that wraps up the new creators. To concretize these new tendencies in a single name and following the exposition throughout the work, the approach to his dramaturgy and the academic essays, Juan Mayorga has studied in his creation a critical and philosophical point of view of the society, as well as a distrust to the words and truths established throughout the tradition. Juan Mayorga has become an attractive author for academics because of his dramatic language and his staging. His work as a playwright and his recent inclusion in the Royal Spanish Academy give him a linguistic and philosophical merit that spreads out all his playwright work. The spectators who attend their theatrical events have to enter into the political-theatrical game that he proposes.

Fragments of the Moon is a novel set mostly in South Korea, examining relationships between people, interpersonal spaces, architectural spaces and landscape through a cross-cultural context. Matt, a graduate architect from Perth, Australia, finds himself increasingly vulnerable to cultural confusion as he adjusts to life away from his home and friends. Having initially assumed that Seoul's western facade echoes its social dynamic, Matt increasingly discovers that the Confucianism which underpins much of contemporary Korean society makes all relationships far more complex than his assumptions had allowed. Together with a Canadian student who is seeking to find the essence of a different Korea through her investigation of Buddhism, and through meeting diverse Korean characters, readers will discover several of the many facets of contemporary Korean culture. Readers will be encouraged to test the slippery surfaces on which familiar and unfamiliar attitudes to bodies, landscape and created spaces rest. 'Body, Space, Ideas of Home: Cross-cultural Perspectives' (thesis) The thesis examines the interaction of body space, architectural space, landscape, and emotional states in contemporary literary fiction from several cultural perspectives. Bodies, landscapes, and architectural spaces are shown to be devices through which contemporary authors with different cultural backgrounds have expressed character and explored ideas, especially thematic concerns related to cultural or cross-cultural confusion or understanding. Notions of 'feeling at home' and 'being alien' are investigated through the work of authors who either have a cross-cultural heritage (e.g. Jhumpa Lahiri a Bengali/American), or who write about a culture which is not their own (e.g. Dianne Highbridge, an Australian writing about Japan). Several chosen authors explore the relationships between the spiritual and the physical, the metaphysical and the corporeal. These elements are particularly highlighted when examining the narratives of Tim Winton (The Riders, 1994) and Simone Lazaroo (The World Waiting To Be Made, 1994); and two of Japan's most popular writers, Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood, 2000) and Banana Yoshimoto (Lizard, 1995). For some writers, this exploration of spaces forms the focal point of their work; for others, it is an important facet of their narrative world, which helps to ground their writing for contemporary readers whose own backgrounds must also influence their understandings.

The focus of this project is on poetry, narrative, landscape and myth, and the palimpsest and/or hybridisation created when these four areas overlay each other. Our local communities' engagement with myth-making activity provides a golden opportunity for contemporary poets to continue the practice long established by our forebears of utilising folklore and legendary material as sources for poetry. Keeping in mind the words of M. H. Abrams who said

Techronomicon Techronomicon is a science fiction novel that examines far-future military actions from several different perspectives. Human beings have colonized several planets with help from the enigmatic and more technologically advanced Zhir, who gave spaceships and habitable worlds to those they deemed suitable and their descendants. The Joint Expeditionary Force is the military arm of the Universal Faith, called in when conflicts arise that the Faith decides are beyond the local government and militia and require their intervention. Leneveldt and Roader are JEF officers assigned to Operation Techronomicon, investigating what seems to be a Zhir-built defence shield around the planet Lassana. Another JEF company sent to Kalaabhavan after the murder of the planets Confessor-General loses its CO to a land-mine, and Lieutenant Hellerman reluctantly accepts command. Chevalier, a civilian pilot, takes refugees fleeing military-run detention camps on Ararat to a biological research station on otherwise uninhabited Lila. The biologists on Lila discover a symbiote that enables humans to photosynthesize, which comes to the attention of Operation Techronomicon and the JEF's Weapons Research Division. Leneveldt and Roeder, frustrated by the lack of progress on Lassana, are sent to Lila to detain the biologists, who flee into the swamps. Hellerman's efforts to restore peace on Kalaabhavan are frustrated by the Confessors, and his company finds itself besieged by insurgents. The novel explores individuals' motives for choosing or rejecting violence and/or military service; the lessons they learn about themselves and their enemies; and the possible results of attempts to forcibly suppress ideas.

This study explores the representations of masculinity in selected contemporary children’s adventure literature. According to John Stephens (2002:x), a problem for boys, both in narrative fictions and in the world, is that hegemonic masculinity ‘appears simultaneously to propose a schema for behaviour and to insist on their subordination as children, to conflate agency with hegemonic masculinity, and to disclose that, for them, such agency is illusory’. This issue, among others, forms the basis of the research as this paradox is particularly evident in texts that fall within the adventure genre, where protagonists present an image of empowered masculinity that has little or no correlation in real, that is, non-literary, childhood. Nevertheless, despite this apparent conflict, the discourses portrayed in these texts continue to influence society (in varying degrees) as they are promoted, perpetuated and disseminated through cultural productions. Moreover, as this research rests on the premise of a belief ‘in the cultural productivity of fictions’ (Knights 1999:vii), it focuses on literary material that forms part of the landscape of childhood in contemporary society. Therefore, this study analyses selected 21st century children’s texts in order to identify and discuss the representations of masculinity in these texts in the context of their publication at a time when hegemonic masculinity has long been a topic of popular and academic debate. The primary texts include the Arthur series by Kevin Crossley-Holland, Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider series, the Young Bond series by Charlie Higson and Steve Cole and the Bodyguard books by Chris Bradford.By using discourse theory as a lens to complement the masculinity studies approach, this research investigates the questions posed under the problem statement and presents findings that demonstrate that the gender models presented in the texts are, for the most part, cast in ‘the masculinist and patriarchal conventions that characterised imperialist adventure’ (Capdevila 2003:216). Thus, it is evident that the children’s adventure genre seems to be rather tardy in keeping with the times. Nevertheless, much of the conflict surrounding the performance of masculinity in contemporary society is represented through the texts and forms a significant part of the narrative.
Linguistics and Modern Languages

This thesis is composed of two parts, the exegesis, which offers a history of Serbian community theatre in Sydney, and the creative component, a play, The Land, written to be performed as a contribution to the contemporary development of Serbian community theatre. The focus of the exegesis is on the historical overview of Serbian community theatre in Sydney from the 1950s until 2020. It looks at the community theatre repertoire of three theatre groups. I compare the repertoires of these groups with the visiting theatre productions from Serbia organised by U-next and, also, the work of the local theatre group Pilipenda established in Sydney in 2009, in which I work as a writer, director, and actor. My research shows that the first three to four decades of Serbian community theatre productions were linked to the national and folk element from the Serbian past. The role of the community theatre was to serve as an educational method to preserve the Serbian language and culture within the community. However, as the new wave of the Serbian migration arrived in Australia in the 1990s, the second generation of Serbs growing up in Australia demonstrated that the taste of the Serbian theatre audience has changed. This contemporary audience seeks new forms of writing and more local and contemporary themes. As my next community theatre project with Pilipenda Theatre, I have written a play (The Land) which should bring some innovation to current Serbian community theatre. The play is written in English, and it is targeting the new generation of Australian Serbs. The play portrays a story about an Australian-Serb, character named Pavle, and an Arabic speaker, Wahib. The use of the English language now plays an important role in attracting Serbian youth as the community's new audience. Writing and performing in English will, also, bring the community stories much closer to the larger Australian audience.

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What is it about the vocal melodies of popular music that make you want to listen again and again? This music-theoretical study applies principles of Gestalt psychology and theories of expectation to a study of melodic hooks in 21st-century popular music. The hypothesis tested here is that melodic hooks are a vital element in “catchiness”. Transcription and analysis of melodies by major recording artists is used to explore the note-to-note basis for melodic hooks. The analysis of recordings by Adele, Carly Rae Jepsen, Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke shows how factors of repetition, familiarity, simplicity, resolution, ambiguity of key, and expectation all contribute to the sense of catchiness in music. A listener-response study was used to test the experience of catchiness in the case studies, and corroborates the hypothesis that catchiness depends principally on expectation as an overarching factor. The study also uses auto-ethnographic reflection on the practice of song-writing to give insight into strategies for creating catchy popular songs. The experience of composing a pop song, and releasing it on air, provides unique insight into the artistic process. The results of all these studies show that the perceptual principle of expectation is a crucial factor in the experience of catchiness.
Ingabe yini eyenza iminkenenezo yomculo odumile ikukhange futhi ikuhehe ufise ukuwulalela kaninginingi? Lolu cwaningo lwethiyori yomculo lusebenzisa imigomo ye-Gestalt psychology kanye namathiyori alokho okulindelekile (theories of expectation) ukucubungula nokuhlaziya amavesi eminkenenezo emnandi futhi ekhangayo yomculo odumile wekhulunyaka lama-21. Ihayiphothesisi ehlolwayo lapha wukuthi amavesi eminkenenezo emnandi futhi ekhangayo ayingxenye esemqoka kakhulu “ekukhangeni” komculo. Ukubhalwa nokuhlaziywa kweminkenenezo yabaculi abayizikhondlakhondla abaqopha umculo kuyasetshenziswa kulolu cwaningo ukucubungula inothi nenothi levesi lomnkenenezo omnandi futhi okhangayo. Ukuhlaziywa komculo oqoshiwe ka-Adele, Carly Rae Jepsen, Pharrell Williams kanye no-Robin Thicke kuyabonisa ukuthi izinto ezinjengokuphindaphinda, ukujwayeleka komculo othile, ubulula bomculo, ukuguquka kwenothi lomculo libe ngumnkenenezo ohlabahlosile (resolution), ukungaqondakali nokungaqiniseki ngokhiye womculo (ambiguity of key), kanye nalokho okulindelekile, konke kuyizinto ezilekelelayo futhi ezifaka isandla ekukhangeni komnkenenezo womculo. Ucwaningo lwendlela abazizwa ngayo abalaleli bomculo lwasetshenziswa ukuhlola ukuthi bakhangekile yini labo balaleli bomculo, kwizincwaningo-zigameko zokulalelwa komculo, futhi lolu cwaningo lwasekela lwaphinda lwaqinisekisa ihayiphothesisi ethi ukukhanga komnkenenezo womculo kuncike ikakhulukazi kulokho okulindelwe ngumlaleli womculo njengombandela-ngqangi wokuheheka nokukhangeka kwakhe. Ucwaningo lusebenzisa futhi nokuzibandakanya komcwaningi (auto-ethnographic reflection) enqubweni yokubhalwa kwamaculo ukuze athole ulwazi olunzulu futhi aqondisise kahle amaqhingasu okuqamba izingoma ezidumile ezinomnkenenezo omnandi futhi okhangayo. Ukuzibandakanya enqubweni yokuqamba ingoma yomculo we-pop, kanye nokuyikhipha ukuze idlalwe emisakazweni, kuhlinzeka ngethuba eliyingqayizivele lokuqonda ngokujulile inqubo yokwenza umculo. Imiphumela yazo zonke lezi zincwaningo iyabonisa ukuthi umgomo wendlela-kuhumusha izinto ngokwalokho okulindelekile wumgomo osemqoka kakhulu ekufikelweni komuntu ngumuzwa wokukhangwa nokuhehwa ngumnkenenezo.
Zingantoni izandi ezimnandi zokuvuma ezivakalayo zomculo odumileyo okubangela ufune ukuwuphulaphula njalo njalo? Olu phononongo lomculo ngokwenkcazelo eyingcingane lusebenzisa imigaqo-siseko yemeko yengqondo iGestalt (Gestalt psychology) kunye neengcingane (theories) zokulindelweyo kufundo lwezandi ezinomtsalane okubambayo kumculo wenkulungwane yama-21 Ulwazi oluyingcamango engenabungqina oluhlolwe apha kukuba izandi ezimnandi zokuvuma ingoma ziyinto ebalulekileyo "ekubambeni lula". Ukubhalwa kunye nohlalutyo lweengoma ezenziwa ngabaculi abaphambili bokushicilela kusetyenziselwa ukuphonononga isiseko senowuthi ukusuka kwenye ukuya kwenye inowuthi ngokwezibambo zokuvakala kwezandi. Uhlalutyo lokushicilela luka-Adele, Carly Rae Jepsen, Pharrell Williams kunye noRobin Thicke kubonisa indlela izinto eziphindaphindwayo, zokuqheleka, zobulula, ukusombulula, nobumbolombini kwikhi kunye nokulindelweyo konke kunegalelo kumba wokutsalwa ubanmbeke emculweni. Uphononongo lokusabela komphulaphuli lwasetyenziswa ukuvavanya amava okufumana ifuthe lomtsalane kwizifundo zabucala, kwaye zihambelana nengcinga yokuba ukubamba kuxhomekeka ikakhulu kulindelo njengeyona nto iphambili. Olu phononongo lukwasebenzisa imbonakalo ezenzekelayo kwinkcazo yenzululwazi ngeentlanga kumsebenzi wokubhalwa kwengoma ukunika ukuqonda ngeendlela zokuyila ingoma ezimnandi ezidumileyo. Amava okuqamba ingoma ye-pop, kunye nokuyikhupha emoyeni, inika ingqiqo eyahlukileyo kwinkqubo yobugcisa. Iziphumo zazo zonke ezi zifundo zibonisa ukuba umgaqo-siseko wengcingane yokulindelweyo luphawu olubalulekileyo kakhulu kumava okubamba.
Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology
M. Mus. (Musicology)