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MEKI NZEWI (1939 - ) |
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Nationality: Nigerian Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Meki Nzewi - African musical arts theorist, composer, music-dramatist, performer and creative writer. Professor of African Music, University of Pretoria & Director, Centre for Indigenous Instrumental Music and Dance Practices of Africa (CIIMDA), Research, Education & Performance for SADC based in Pretoria. Practical and research studies of the underlying philosophy, principles and creative theory informing the African indigenous musical arts conceptualisations, creativity and performance practices. Concerned with the issues of contemporary documentation, analyses, interpretation, resuscitation, theoretical and creative continuum of African musical arts heritage. These have resulted in books, philosophical essays, research monographs, compositions, novels and journal articles, the design, creation and production of literary musical arts works -operas, musicals, music/dance drama & TV series/serials - deriving from indigenous knowledge systems, creative writing, professional practices as composer, stage director/producer and African 'mother' drummer - literacy and oral.
Plays by Meki Nzewi
Pepsi-Cola Kid | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Castle, Pretoria East, South Africa | Jun 2010 | ||||
Company: | Something Magic Theatre Organisation | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #108600 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 | ||
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Notes: | Prof. Meki Nzewi from the University of Pretoria is both the composer and author of Pepsi-Cola Kid. | |||||
Synopsis: | Pepsi-Cola Kid is a contemporary Youth Musical which is humanistic-educational and portrays an ambitious and industrious seventeen year old girl from a poor background who cannot afford to go to college. She vends Pepsi-cola products during the day in a mobile cart. In the evenings she invests her commissions on attending night school to further her educational and career ambitions. Her favorite stand is at the border between two adjacent high schools where a cold-war exists amongst students of the two schools. The Musical is filled with abundant good cheer and catchy song-chant slogans. The music is exhilarating and the dialogue thrilling whilst educational at the same time. | |||||
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