Dr Erin Johnson-Williams erin.g.johnson-williams@durham.ac.uk
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
The Examiner and the Evangelist: Authorities of Music and Empire, c.1894
Johnson-Williams, Erin
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Abstract
In the 1890s, two musicians travelled between Britain and South Africa. One was the first examiner to travel abroad to examine for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, Franklin Taylor. At the same time as Taylor’s arrival in the Cape in 1894, a black South African composer, John Knox Bokwe, prepared to republish a tonic sol-fa hymnal containing many hymns that eventually became popular in Britain, to which Bokwe travelled multiple times. Although these narratives might appear to reflect highly divergent contexts for musical experience, the fluctuating constructions of imperial authority encountered in the careers of both these men link their stories together more deeply than their geographical and cultural disparities set them apart. The synchronous presentation of their stories in this article thus raises questions of how music emerged as a metaphor for constructions of imperial knowledge across shifting cultural boundaries.
Citation
Johnson-Williams, E. (2020). The Examiner and the Evangelist: Authorities of Music and Empire, c.1894. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 145(2), 317-350. https://doi.org/10.1017/rma.2020.16
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Feb 15, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 13, 2020 |
Publication Date | Nov 30, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Apr 3, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Journal of the Royal Musical Association |
Print ISSN | 0269-0403 |
Electronic ISSN | 1471-6933 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 145 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 317-350 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/rma.2020.16 |
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This article has been published in a revised form in Journal of the Royal Musical Association http://doi.org/10.1017/rma.2020.16. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Musical Association
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