*With apologies for cross-posting *

The Music department at the University of Southampton invites you to join us for the following in-person and online events this semester:




Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th October 2023


Hartley Residency with Dr Juliana M. Pistorius (UCL)



In person on Highfield Campus, University of Southampton



On Tuesday 10th October, Dr Juliana M. Pistorius will be presenting her talk, 'White Noise: Western Art Music and the Making of Race in Apartheid South Africa', followed the next day, Wednesday 11th October, by a postgraduate seminar and talks from UoS staff, as well as a roundtable.



All are welcome to attend talks and roundtables in person.



Event Schedule:

Day 1: Tuesday 10 October 2023


16:00–17:30   Building 06, Room 1081 (L/R B)

Talk: Dr Juliana M. Pistorius (UCL)

White Noise: Western Art Music and the Making of Race in Apartheid South Africa

Session chaired by Hettie Malcomson



Abstract: With the implementation of the Population Registration Act of 1950, South Africa’s apartheid regime legislated a racial classification system that divided people into white, coloured, and black. However, these categories were unstable and often arbitrary (Posel 2001; 2008). Race classifications were informed by physical attributes such as skin colour and hair type, but also by social preoccupations including friendship groups, education, leisure activities, and cultural tastes. Participants in the so-called European high arts, for instance, were more likely to be endowed with the privilege of whiteness than those whose tastes veered towards the popular. In this context, racial constructs expanded beyond biology, to incorporate culture, class, and history. The result was a system that stood open to individual interpretation, allowing for contestation, reclassification, and mobility.

This paper considers the complicated role played by Western art music not only in the construction and consolidation, but also in the destabilisation, of apartheid-era race categories. Attending more closely to what Kristen M. Turner (2015) has called a ‘whitening effect’ achieved by Western art music practice among Black communities, it builds on current work on the relationships between music and race (Ramsey 2003; Gilroy 2019) to look specifically at the hidden assumptions embedded in constructions of Western art music’s whiteness. The paper draws on new archival research into international performers’ tours through apartheid South Africa to examine the mythical classification of ‘honorary whiteness’ and to the colour lines—both imagined and real—drawn around specific musical practices.


Day 2: Wednesday 11 October 2023



10:00-12:00   Building 04, Room 4003

Postgraduate seminar led by Dr Juliana M. Pistorius (UCL) - primary source show and tell



13:30-15:0   Building 58, Room 1023 (L/R G)

Talk: Dr Erin Johnson-Williams (University of Southampton)

Sonic Traces of Race: Archiving South African Mission History

Session chaired by Chiying Lam



15:30-17:00  Building 58, Room 1065

Closing Roundtable: Sonic Representations: The Politics of Music Archiving

Interventions and roundtable discussion with Juliana M. Pistorius (UCL) with the University of Southampton’s Samantha Ege, Liz Gre, Erin Johnson-Williams and Thomas Irvine

Session chaired by Hettie Malcomson



Roundtable starter questions:

  *   How do cultures of archival knowledge shape your research?
  *   How are oppressions and place inscribed in archival knowledge? (NB Matsuda’s intersectional ‘other question’ method: ‘When I see something that looks racist, I ask, "Where is the patriarchy in this?" When I see something that looks sexist, I ask, "Where is the heterosexism in this?" When I see something that looks homophobic, I ask, "Where are the class interests in this?"’ (Matsuda 1990, 1189)
  *   What particular issues around archival knowledge are complicated by music, in particular?
  *   How do hierarchies of archiving – such as notational literacy / educational standardisation – influence your research and/or practice?



For more information regarding these events, please email Dr Hettie Malcomson at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>



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Wednesday 1 November 2023 – 4-5pm - Online

Online Mini-Hartley Residency

Dr. Scott Mclaughlin (University of Leeds)

Talk: The Garden of Forking Paths: composing for contingent instruments and material agency

All are welcome to attend talk online. For further details, contact Matthew Shlomowitz:  [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>



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Wednesday 22 November 2023 – 4-5pm - Online

Online Mini-Hartley Residency

Dr. Jennifer Torrence (Norwegian Academy of Music)

Talk: Performance as device for disorientation

All are welcome to attend talk online. For further details, contact Matthew Shlomowitz:  [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>



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Wednesday 6 December 2023 – 4-5pm - Online

Online Mini-Hartley Residency

Prof Kaleb E. Goldschmitt (Wellesley College)

Talk: Invisible Disabilities and Musical Media

All are welcome to attend talk online. For further details, contact Hettie Malcomson: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>





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Dr Hettie Malcomson
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Social Anthropology
Doctoral Programmes Director, Music
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/music/hettie_malcomson
https://soton.academia.edu/HettieMalcomson

pronouns: she/her or they/them/their


Recent Interventions:

Malcomson, Hettie. 2023. Danzón Days: Age, race, and romance in Mexico. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087134

---. 2021. "Making subjects grievable: Narco rap, moral ambivalence and ethical sense making." Ethnomusicology Forum 30 (2): 205-225. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2021.1944253

---. 2020. "On Sensationalism, Violence and Academic Knowledge." Transposition. Musique et Sciences Sociales. https://doi.org/10.4000/transposition.4931

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