Music as implicit cultural policy instrument in South Africa: A case study of musicians sello Galane, Rudzani Colbert Mukwevho and Khakhathi Tshisikule

Abstract

This article discusses music as cultural policy instrument in South Africa. It observes that numerous studies focus on cultural policy as initiated by governments in the western hemisphere and articulated through the written medium to its audience therein. While cultural policy in the country is also by and large government driven, it however also involves ordinary citizens through other transmissions like music. Through interviews and discography of songs by musicians Sello Galane, Rudzani Colbert Mukwevho and Khakhathi Tshisikule, the article demonstrates how cultural policy can be initiated by artists or how they can critic the already existing ones as sanctioned by respective current governing authorities.