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Research interests
Nishlyn Ramanna teaches undergraduate modules on the music industry, music and migration, jazz studies, and music and digital culture, as well as a postgraduate module on music and digital culture. He supervises undergraduate and postgraduate dissertation work on a range of topics in popular music studies and ethnomusicology. He was previously head of jazz studies at Rhodes University, South Africa.
Education/Academic qualification
Musicology, Doctor of Philosophy, Jazz as discourse: A contextualised account of contemporary jazz in post-apartheid Durban and Johannesburg, University of Kwazulu-Natal
1 Jan 2001 → 15 Jun 2005
Award Date: 11 May 2006
Music , Bachelor of Music, Jazz performance and composition
15 Feb 1990 → 30 Nov 1993
Award Date: 16 Apr 1994
External positions
College tutor, University of Oxford
10 May 2020 → 30 Nov 2020
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Ode to a good listener; Song for my sister; Among the ancestors; Lune de Clare
Ramanna, N., 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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Discursive flows in South African jazz studies: Texts, contexts, and subtexts
Ramanna, N., 2016, In: WORLD OF MUSIC. 5 number 2, 0043-8774, p. 7-29 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Marabi Nights: Jazz, 'Race' and society in Early Apartheid South Africa. By Christopher Ballantine. end edn. Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press 2012
Ramanna, N., 2016, In: Popular Music. 35, 3, p. 456-458 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Experiences of Belonging and Exclusion in the Production and Reception of Some Contemporary South African Jazz: An Interpretatitve Phenomenological Analysis
Ramanna, N., 2015, In: South African Music Studies. 34, 1, p. 262-289 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Review Christopher Ballantine (2012) Marabi Nights: Jazz, 'race' and scoiety in early apartheid South Africa 2nd ed Pietermaritzburg UKZN Press
Ramanna, N., 2014, In: Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa. 84, p. 157-159 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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