DR SELLO GALANE
Dr Sello Galane has a PhD in Musicology from the University of
Pretoria. He is a music composer, arranger and producer, and
a Arts Education Chief Specialist. He has been teaching from
high school, college of education to university with keen interest
both on the redress agenda for creating parity of discourse
between Western and Indigenous African music, dance, drama,
and visual arts education.
Recently, he has been involved in the development of training
manuals for Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement
training of Curriculum Advisors throughout the all nine
provinces. The inclusion of both Jazz and Indigenous Music
streams in the curriculum has been one of his achievements
as a Chief Education Specialist together with other members of
the Ministerial Task Teams appointed to carry out the task. He
served as an external examiner for third year music students at
University of Pretoria, and is currently an external examiner for
MA Arts programme at TUT.
He has performed in many international arts programmes in
different parts of the world and has served both in the NEPAD and
UNESCO Arts Education committees and programmes. Dr Sello
Galane also served as a member of the Board of the National Arts
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Council of South Africa. He is a published poet, and an editor of
the book on the History of South African music Beyond Memory.
He is a recipient of many awards including the Smithsonian
Institute of American Folklife, OT Award from University of
Limpopo, Mapungubwe Award, and the Kwankwetla award from
the Agananang Municipality for substantial contribution to the
development of the arts of South Africa. In 2013 he received the
Tribute to Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award.
Galane has written music for a number of well known musicians
like Selaelo Selota with his contribution of a track ‘Painted Phases’,
and Re a lotsha on Judith’s ‘New Beginnings’. He was appointed
the musical director for an international musical ‘Mother of
Rain’ which premiered at the State Theatre, Grahamstown Arts
Festival, and Burmingham. His biggest contribution was the
development of Kiba music of South Africa (MA – cum laude)
and the Analysis of Dr Phillip Tabane’s Malombo music (Dmus).
His international experience includes performing in Senegal,
North Sea (Den Hagen), Washington DC, Lesotho, South Africa,
Nantes, Paris and Kannes in France, and ran Arts Industry
Workshops in Namibia, Nigeria, and presented papers at
UNESCO conferences South Africa and Korea, SATI Inaugural
Conference in Swaziland, and attended Ethnomusicology
workshops in Zimbabwe, just to mention but a few.
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