This article explores the content, scope and impact of an annual contemporary music festival in South Africa, the first of which was presented in 2000 by New Music South Africa (NMSA), the South African chapter of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM). It explores the New Music Indabas of 2000–02 against the background of the political and cultural transformations that characterized South Africa, especially in the aftermath of the end of apartheid. Research into the archive of NMSA provided an entry point into understanding South African cultural, social and political life in the early years of the country's democracy. The ‘separate development’ rhetoric of the totalitarian apartheid regime, in power from 1948 to 1994, prevented cultural exchange and connection between musics and musicians in South Africa for decades; this article explores the ways in which the New Music Indabas attempted to right these historical imbalances, and to forge new directions for South African art-music production and practice.

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新南非人的新音乐：南非的新音乐 Indabas，2000-02

本文探讨了南非一年一度的当代音乐节的内容、范围和影响，其中第一个音乐节于 2000 年由国际当代音乐协会 (ISCM) 的南非分会 New Music South Africa (NMSA) 举办. 它探讨了 2000-02 年新音乐 Indabas 在南非特有的政治和文化变革的背景下，特别是在种族隔离结束之后。对 NMSA 档案的研究为了解该国民主初期的南非文化、社会和政治生活提供了一个切入点。从 1948 年到 1994 年掌权的极权种族隔离政权的“分离发展”言论几十年来阻碍了南非音乐和音乐家之间的文化交流和联系；