This article explores how three regional children’s choirs and their practitioners, from different provinces of South Africa, project a distinctly South African choral identity that they themselves construct by fabricating a mental representation of themselves, through the identification, organisation and interpretation of particular musical and non-musical elements. It is ultimately argued that each of the three choirs – The Eastern Cape Children’s Choir, Cantare Children’s Choir and the Tygerberg Children’s Choir – projects its own unique choral identity, which is inclusively South African.

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特别参考三个南非地区儿童合唱团，在构建合唱身份中的音乐和音乐外元素的投射

本文探讨了来自南非不同省份的三个地区儿童合唱团及其从业者如何通过对特定音乐和非音乐的识别、组织和解释，通过捏造自己的心理表征来构建自己独特的南非合唱身份。 - 音乐元素。最终的争论是，三个合唱团——东开普儿童合唱团、坎塔雷儿童合唱团和泰格伯格儿童合唱团——都表现出自己独特的合唱身份，包括南非在内。