Music of Mzilikazi Khumalo

Thomas M. Pooley is Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Art and Music at the University of South Africa. He has published widely on African art music, and on Zulu music, language and culture. He is the author of The Land is Sung: Zulu Performances and the Politics of Place (2023). Pooley is founding managing editor of the journal Analytical Approaches to African Music.Naomi André is the David G. Frey Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, and Professor Emerita of Afroamerican and African Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and the Residential College at the University of Michigan, USA. She is the author of Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement (2018) and a founding member of the Black Opera Research Network (BORN).Innocentia Mhlambi is Associate Professor in the Department of African Languages at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is the author of African-language Literatures: Perspectives on isiZulu Fiction and Popular Television Series, and co-author of Mintiro ya Vulavula: Arts, national identities and democracy in South Africa. Donato Somma is Senior Lecturer and Head of Music at the Wits School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Somma has published on African operas and on music in Italian prisoner of war camps in South Africa.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Music of J.S. Mzilikazi KhumaloThomas Pooley, University of South Africa, Naomi André, UNC Chapel Hill, USA, Innocentia Mhlambi, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and Donato Somma, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa1. Ugqozi: A Biography of James Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932 – 2021)Thomas Pooley, University of South Africa2. An Interview with Diliza KhumaloThomas Pooley, University of South Africa3. The National Anthem CommitteeJ.S. Mzilikazi Khumalo (ed. Ludumo Magangane), Composer and Independent Scholar, South Africa4. Nation Building Massed Choir Festival: Collaboration between Professor J. S. M. Khumalo and Maestro Richard CockRichard Cock, Choral Music Director and Conductor, South Africa5. The Use of Tonic Sol-Fa Notation by Professor Mzilikazi KhumaloLudumo Magangane, Conductor and Independent Scholar, South Africa6. The Music for A Cappella ChoirDavid Smith, Musician and Independent Scholar, South Africa7. The Evolution of UShaka as an African EpicRobert Maxym, Conductor and Composer8. Sigiya Ngengoma: Music Dancing History and Politics in UShaka KaSenzangakhona (1996)Innocentia Mhlambi, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa9. The Unique Collaboration Behind the Opera Princess Magogo kaDinuzuluSandra de Villiers, Opera Africa10. The Music of Princess Magogo kaDinuzuluMegan Quilliam, Independent Scholar, USA11. 'Walking in Thorns': Nested Contexts in the Creation of Princess Magogo kaDinuzuluDonato Somma, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa12. Representing Princess Magogo in the Opera Princess Magogo kaDinuzuluKholeka Shange, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaWorks List of James Stephen Mzilikazi Khumalo (1932-2021)Thomas Pooley, University of South AfricaScore: “Ma Ngificwa Ukufa” (1959) by J.S.M. KhumaloScore: “Izibongo ZikaShaka” (1981) by J.S.M. KhumaloEditor and Contributor BiosNotesBibliographyDiscographyIndex

The immortal sometimes must die in order to emasculate the pangs of birth and death, especially in artistic creations. The essays in this volume represent a timely appraisal and celebration of the Mzilikazi Khumalo that never would die—his contributions are immortalized far beyond the singable and the imaginable; they are sites of renewable Africanities.