[ONLINE] Social Justice and the Concert Stage: Case South Africa

Programme

Johann Buis, Schulich Distinguished Visiting Chair in Music and Seminar students present Social Justice and the Concert Stage: Case South Africa

What does the concert stage have to do with Social Justice? Dean’s Chair of the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Johann Buis (pronounced “Base”), frames his response to the question in his Epistemology of Transnational Disequilibrium. He argues that well-balanced social elements—such as power, race, class, gender, etc.--should tend towards equilibrium to foster thriving performance cultures. He sheds a spotlight on apartheid South Africa (1948-1994). Nearly fifty years of social disequilibrium resulted in the oversaturation of privilege versus the displacement of privilege based on race. A collection of primary oral accounts reveals the enormous challenge this disequilibrium brought to the concert stage during apartheid South Africa.

This Symposium: “Social Justice and the Concert Stage: Case South Africa” is presented by participants in a graduate seminar titled “Music, Social Justice, and Black Perspectives.” Never before have first-hand accounts by music luminaries shaped by apartheid been collected from across the racial divide. These accounts attest to remarkable personal transformation with the benefit of nearly thirty years of historical distance since the demise of apartheid in South Africa.

Presentations by Jana Kaminsky, Frédéricka Petit-Homme, Maria Gajraj, Joshua Morris, Our Yildiz, Rebekah Dennis, Jennifer Mong, Jeremy Tatar, Jeanel Liang, Caroline Holden, and Esther-Ruth Teel.

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Meeting ID: 883 5153 0878
Passcode: 407421

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