Degrees Held
- University Diploma in Music Performance. DipMusPerf. University of Natal. 1992.
- Bachelor of Music. BMus. University of Natal, 1995.
- Master of Music cum laude. MMus. University of Natal. 1998.
- Doctor of Philosophy. PhD. University of KwaZulu-Natal. 2009.
Research Interests
- Jazz and Popular Music of South Africa
- Maskandi
- Isicathamiya
- Musical Bows
- South African Indigenous Music and Musical Instruments
- African Children’s Music
- New Music Composition & Performance
Teaching Interests
- South African Jazz and Popular Music
- Popular & Traditional Music of Africa
- Musical Bow Traditions of Southern Africa
- African Music and Township Jazz Ensemble
- Small Ensemble and Big Band Jazz Composition and Performance
Selected
Publications and Creative Output
Books
Chapters in Books
Journal Articles
CD and Video recordings
Books
- Dlamini, Sazi (ed.). 2021. Musical Bows of Southern Africa. Bloomsbury Publishing. New York/London.
- Dlamini, Sazi. 2017. First International Bow Music Conference Proceedings. International Library of African Music (ILAM). Grahamstown. https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/1008932351?queryString=au%3A%28Dlamini%2C%20Sazi%29&databaseList=283%2C638&sortKey=BEST_MATCH&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&bookReviews=off
- Dlamini, Sazi., Carol Ann Muller et al. 2010. Shembe Hymns. Scotsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/181600163?queryString=au%3A%28Dlamini%2C%20Sazi%29&databaseList=283%2C638&sortKey=BEST_MATCH&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&bookReviews=off
- Dlamini, Sazi., Hortop S., and Annemarie Levine. 2001. Arts and Culture Today Grade 4. Maskew Miller Longman: Cape Town. https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/58822848?queryString=ti%3A%28Arts%20and%20Culture%20Today%20Grade%204%29&databaseList=283%2C638&sortKey=BEST_MATCH&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&bookReviews=off
- Dlamini Sazi., Hortop, Stella and Annemarie Levine. 2004. Verken Kuns En Kultuur. Graad 4, Leerderboek. Eerste uitgawe. Kaapstad: Maskew Miller Longman. https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/941897902?queryString=ti%3A%28Verken%20Kuns%20en%20Kultuur%20Graad%204%29&databaseList=283%2C638&sortKey=BEST_MATCH&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&bookReviews=off
- Dlamini Sazi., Hortop, Stella and Annemarie Levine. 2004. Arts & Culture Today: Learner’s Book: Grade 5. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman. https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/814070113?queryString=ti%3A%28%20Arts%20%26%20Culture%20Today%3A%20Learner%E2%80%99s%20Book%3A%20Grade%205%29&databaseList=283%2C638&sortKey=BEST_MATCH&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&bookReviews=off
- Dlamini, S., and A. Levine. 2004. Verken Kuns En Kultuur. Graad 5, Leerderboek. 1ste uitg. Kaapstad: Maskew Miller Longman. https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/934936332?queryString=ti%3A%28Verken%20Kuns%20en%20Kultuur%29&databaseList=283%2C638&sortKey=BEST_MATCH&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&bookReviews=off
- Dlamini, Sazi. 2001. Ezweni/In the Country. Family Literacy Project: Durban.
- Dlamini, Sazi. 2001. Ngezandla/Hands. Family Literacy Project: Durban.
- Dlamini, Sazi. 2001. Izihlobo/Family Relations. Family Literacy Project: Durban.
Chapters in Books
- Dlamini, Sazi. 2024. ‘Ngoma lungundu drum in Venda littoral migrations: ngoma in the Afro-Asian and global black diaspora’ in Afroasian Musical Imaginaries: Of Circulations and Interconnections. Edited by Sumangala Damodaran. First edition. New Delhi: Tulika Books. https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/1410515221?queryString=au%3A%28Damodaran%2C%20Sumangala%29&databaseList=283%2C638&sortKey=BEST_MATCH&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&bookReviews=off
- Dlamini, Sazi. 2021. “Umakhweyana and Ugubhu Zulu Musical Bows as Inkokha, Imvingo, Inkohlisa, Uqwabe and Isiqwemqwemana.” Chapter. In Musical Bows of Southern Africa, 113–56. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501346774.ch-004
Journal Articles
- Dlamini. Sazi. 2020. “Sekuru’s Stories.” African Music: Journal of the International Library of African Music 11 (2): 169–70. https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v11i2.2320.
- Dlamini, Sazi. 2019. ‘A Return’. Herri #1. https://herri.org.za/1/sazi-dlamini/
- Dlamini, Sazi. 2020. ‘Composing with Jurgen Brauninger: 1989- 2019’. Herri #4. https://herri.org.za/4/sazi-dlamini/
- Dlamini, Sazi. 2016. ‘Tsaba Tsaba’. Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume X – Genres: 540-42. https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/1079352685?queryString=ti%3A%28BLOOMSBURY%20ENCYCLOPEDIA%20OF%20POPULAR%20MUSIC%20OF%20THE%20WORLD%20VOLUMES%20VIII%E2%80%93XIV%3A%20GENRES%29&databaseList=283%2C638&sortKey=BEST_MATCH&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&bookReviews=off
- Dlamini, Sazi. 2016. ‘Isicathamiya’. Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume X – Genres: 296-303. https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/1079352685?queryString=ti%3A%28BLOOMSBURY%20ENCYCLOPEDIA%20OF%20POPULAR%20MUSIC%20OF%20THE%20WORLD%20VOLUMES%20VIII%E2%80%93XIV%3A%20GENRES%29&databaseList=283%2C638&sortKey=BEST_MATCH&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&bookReviews=off
- Dlamini, Sazi (with Gagne, Paul R., Melissa Reilly Ellard, David Mansfield, John Jennings, Crystal Taliefero, Katherine Kellgren, et al.). 2012. The Curious Garden: … And More Stories About Nature. Directed by Steve Syarto, Ed Mironiuk, and Kris Tercek. [United States]: New Video Group. https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/812197118?queryString=ti%3A%28The%20Curious%20Garden%3A%20%E2%80%A6%20And%20More%20Stories%20About%20Nature.%29&databaseList=283%2C638&sortKey=BEST_MATCH&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&bookReviews=off
- Dlamini, Sazi with Christopher Ballantine and Nishlyn Ramanna. 2005. ‘Southern Africa: South Africa’. Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Volume VI: Africa and the Middle East: 100-8. https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/992423200?queryString=ti%3A%28Continuum%20Encyclopedia%20of%20Popular%20Music%20of%20the%20World.%20Volume%20VI%3A%20Africa%20and%20the%20Middle%20East%29&databaseList=283%2C638&sortKey=BEST_MATCH&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&bookReviews=off
- Dlamini, Sazi. 2004.‘The role of umrhubhe in the transmission of cultural knowledge among amaXhosa’. Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, vol 1:138-60. DOI: 10.2989/18121000409486694
- Dlamini, Sazi. 2003. ‘Ideology, Aesthetics and Democratization’. Agenda No.57. Durban: Agenda Feminist Media Company. https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/175290654?queryString=Agenda&stickyFacetsChecked=on&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&bookReviews=off#availability-section
- Diamini, S. 2003. “Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon, by Michael E. Veal.” Popular Music -Cambridge- 22: 393–97. https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/211271407?queryString=ti%3A%28Fela%3A%20The%20Life%20and%20Times%20of%20an%20African%20Musical%20Icon%29&databaseList=283%2C638&sortKey=BEST_MATCH&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&bookReviews=off
- Dlamini, Sazi. 2001. ‘Nikabheni: tin-guitars, juvenile performers and popular music in KwaZulu-Natal’. The Talking Drum, No.16. Durban: NETIEM/PASMAE. https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/500718470?queryString=The%20Talking%20Drum&clusterResults=on&stickyFacetsChecked=on&scope=zs%3A33877&format=Jrnl#availability-section
CD and Video recordings
- The Storming [2017]
- Skokiana [2017] skokiana.com
- Mayihlome-Aahwaan [2014] http://slipnet.co.za/view/event/insurrections-continued-mayihlome-aahwaan/
- “Makhalafukwe”, Leap of Faith [2013]
https://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=9037651 - Insurrections: A Musical Dialogue between Indian and South African Artists [2012] http://ukzn.worldcat.org/title/insurrections-a-musical-dialogue-between-indian-and-south-african-artists/oclc/896521468&referer=brief_results
- 11-81 [2012] http://ukzn.worldcat.org/title/11-81/oclc/896521454&referer=brief_results
- “Jiwe”, Bow Project [2010] http://www.rootsworld.com/reviews/bow-17.shtml
- Ekhaya on Wooden Shoes: The Adventure of Jozef Brezelbacker [2010] https://powensemble.nl/past/past-programmes/ekhaya-on-wooden-shoes/
- The Lion and the Mouse – audio book [2010] https://shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/books/lion-and-the-mouse-the-9780545296779.htm
- Other Scraps [2008] http://ukzn.worldcat.org/title/other-scraps/oclc/896688192&referer=brief_results
- Izulu Lami: My Secret Sky – film soundtrack [2008] https://www.channel24.co.za/Movies/Reviews/Izulu-Lami-My-Secret-Sky-20090819 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=simvRM7Oyqc
- Technodiaspora: An Internet Master Class and Teleperformance [2007] http://www.globaljazz.columbia.edu/Performances.html
- Cato Manor: Contested Past, Pivotal Future [2007]
- Anywhere Far [2006] https://www.bimhuis.nl/en/calendar/sazi-dlamini-luc-houtkampashley-hribaranthony-pateras-2/
- Bongani Umama [2006] http://www.kzntransport.gov.za/media_releases/2007/19-02-2007.pdf
- Making It – videodisc [2005] http://ukzn.worldcat.org/title/making-it/oclc/308625532&referer=brief_results#details-allauthors
- A Child is A Child Because of Other People [2005] https://www.journeyman.tv/film/3119 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=simvRM7Oyqc
- Early Childhood Development TV Campaign [2004]
- Just A Little Smile [2002-03]
- Home-Ikhaya [2002]
- Learning Together: Inclusive Education [2002]
- Yinkosi Yeziziba [2002] http://www.artsmart.co.za/music/archive/2644.html
- Umkhumbane: An Oral History [2002]
- The Sky In Her Eyes [2001] http://stepsforthefuture.co.za/video/sky-eyes/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwVmhd7cI20
- Women And Men Against Violence [2001]
- Adventures At the Waterhole [2001] http://www.vulekaproductions.co.za/talking-animals-a-unique-african-concept/
- We Care [2001]
- Takalani Sesame [1999]
- African Tributes [1992]
- Zanusi [1989]
- A Child Is a Child https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=simvRM7Oyqc
Community Involvement
- (2023) 1973 Durban Strikes Concert – The Courtyard Theatre (Durban University of Technology). Research, Composition, Music Direction and Performance. https://www.insurrectionsensemble.com/specialprojects (Narration) https://www.insurrectionsensemble.com/durban1973storyofastrike. (pwd protected audiovisuals)
- (2023) Documentary film. Dir. Paul Weinberg/Sound Tech. Kurt Egelhof]. Narrative, Composition and Performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqo8ZToOhHU&list=RDMqo8ZToOhHU&start_radio=1
- (2023) Giraffe Humming (with AfroAsia Ensemble). Research, Composition and Performance https://www.insurrectionsensemble.com/giraffe-humming
- Music Melts All Separate Parts of Our Bodies Together – 2023 ISCM World New Music Days Festival (with Luc Houtcamp clarinet, electronics, composition; Clare Ghigo voice; Sazi Dlamini voice, musical bows, guitar. Story-telling, Performance, Free-improvisation.
- “The Walking Song” (with Ari Sitas and Luc Houtcamp) [lyric, voice,
- makhweyana, and electronics]. Bow Project 2 – Bowscapes – In Memory of Jürgen Braüninger by Michael Blake. Audio CD album. https://open.spotify.com/track/5272m3knhRyfiwrJtzQh8r?si=94d9779993b24825
- Inyosi by BM Mdletshe. Audiobook. Music Composition, Studio Performance Recording. ISBN 9781776403615.
- A Sea-drift of Songs (with AfroAsia Ensemble). Research, Composition and Performance. https://www.insurrectionsensemble.com/a-sea-drift-of-songs
- Isivivane – Musical Transgressions (with Insurrections Ensemble). Research. Composition and Performance. Audio CD album. https://www.insurrectionsensemble.com/music
- Mapungubwe (with AfroAsia Ensemble). Research, Composition, Music Direction and Performance.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dh_vx7kasc&t=14s
- Ngoma Lungundu [Documentary film – Dir. Thabo Bopape]. Research, Composition and Performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_61-keM5LPw&t=1290s
- Unyazi (with Luc Houtcamp [Netherlands] & Edwin Balzan [Malta] (UNISA Tshwane). Composition and Performance.
- Threads of Sorrow (with Insurrections Ensemble). Composition and
- Performance, Audio CD album. https://www.insurrectionsensemble.com/music
- Musical Bow Foundation. Website. Founder, Producer, Curator. http://bowmusicfoundation.org/
- Makhweyana (with Bavikile Ngema). Audio CD. Producer and Performance. http://bowmusicfoundation.org/audio-recordings/bavikile-ngema-makhweyana/
- Skokiana. Audio CD album. Producer, Composition and Performance. http://skokiana.co.za/
- Musical Bow Traditions of Southern Africa, On-line Audio Reference Resource. Producer and Curator. http://bowmusicfoundation.org/audio-recordings/musical-bow-traditions-of-southern-africa/
- First International Musical Bow Conference. Research and Performance Conference. Founding Curator. https://bowmusicfoundation.org/1st-bow-music-conference-2016/
- The Storming (with Insurrections Ensemble), CD album. Composition and Performance. https://www.insurrectionsensemble.com/music
- Mayihlome-Aahwaan (with Insurrections Ensemble), CD album.
- Composition and Performance. https://www.insurrectionsensemble.com/music
- Qob’ uqalo [musical composition] (with Juergen Brauninger). CD recording. Composition, Instrument building. Performance.
- ‘Makhalafukwe’ (with VCU Jazz Ensemble) in Leap of Faith, CD album. Composition and Performance. https://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=9037651
- Insurrections: A Musical Dialogue between Indian and South African Artists, CD album. Composition and Performance.
- http://ukzn.worldcat.org/title/insurrections-a-musical-dialogue-between-indian-and-south-african-artists/oclc/896521468&referer=brief_results
- 11-81 (with Jürgen Brauninger). CD album. Composition and Performance. http://ukzn.worldcat.org/title/11-81/oclc/896521454&referer=brief_results
- ‘Jiwe’ (with Jürgen Brauninger), Bow Project, CD album. Composition and Performance. http://www.rootsworld.com/reviews/bow-17.shtml
- Ekhaya on Wooden Shoes (with POW Ensemble [Netherlands]).
- Composition and Performance. https://powensemble.nl/past/past-programmes/ekhaya-on-wooden-shoes/
- Alejandro Iglesias Rossi’s Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments &
- New Technologies [Argentina] at Howard College Theatre – University of KwaZulu-Natal. Concert Performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkapvRP4eIw
- The Lion and the Mouse. Jerry Pinkney, Aesop, Warren Bessey, Steve Syarto. Weston Woods/Scholastic. Audiobook. 2010. Music Composition and Studio Performance Recording
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBdUWx4L5zo
- https://audiobookstore.com/audiobooks/the-lion-and-the-mouse.aspx
- Izulu Lami/My Secret Sky [film soundtrack]. Composition, Performance & Studio Performance Production.
- https://www.channel24.co.za/Movies/Reviews/Izulu-Lami-My-Secret-Sky-20090819
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=simvRM7Oyqc
- Jiwe [for string quartet, ugubhu bow and percussion] (with Juergen
- Brauninger). Composition and Performance.
- https://www.rootsworld.com/reviews/bow-17.shtml
- Inkwishi [for jazz orchestra]. SAMRO Commisioned Music Score.
- Composition and Performance.
- Other Scraps (with Juergen Brauninger). Composition and Performance.
- http://ukzn.worldcat.org/title/otherscraps/oclc/896688192&referer=brief_results
- 2007. Technodiaspora: An Internet Master Class and Teleperformance.
- Teleperformance and Discussion. http://www.globaljazz.columbia.edu/Performances.html
- Cato Manor: Contested Past, Pivotal Future [music score for
- documentary video film], Composition and Studio Performance Recording.
- Rain [stage theatre] (with Mpume Mthombeni, Wendy Nell and Gisele Turner). Composition, Acting and Performance.
- Anywhere Far [new music]. Live Performance.
- https://www.bimhuis.nl/en/calendar/sazi-dlamini-luc-houtkampashley-hribaranthony-pateras-2/
- Bongani Umama [soundtrack]. Documentary Film Soundtrack. Composition, Studio Performance Recording.
- http://www.kzntransport.gov.za/media_releases/2007/19-02-2007.pdf
- Making It. Children’s Educational Television Series. Composition, Studio Performance Recording.
- http://ukzn.worldcat.org/title/making-it/oclc/308625532&referer=brief_results#details-allauthors
- A Child is A Child Because of Other People [music], Audio CD. Song Composition, Studio Children’s Performance Production and Recording. https://www.journeyman.tv/film/3119
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=simvRM7Oyqc
- 2005. The Beautiful Ones Must Be Born [dance theatre] (with Jay Pather Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre). Musical Performance and Movement.
- Early Childhood Development TV Campaign [music], Children’s
- Educational TV. Composition, Studio Performance Recording.
- Destiny [music recording] with Ndikho Xaba and Madala Kunene.
- Composition and Studio Performance Recording.
- Just A Little Smile [soundtrack]. HIV Children documentary DVD.
- Composition and Studio Recording Performance. https://repository.hsrc.ac.za/handle/20.500.11910/7157
- Home-Ikhaya [film soundtrack]. Composition and Studio Recording Performance.
- https://2004.encounters.co.za/films/
- https://ukzn.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/634149345?queryString=ti%3A%28Ikhaya%29%20AND%20au%3A%28Mthiyane%2C%20Omelga%29&databaseList=283%2C638&sortKey=BEST_MATCH&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&bookReviews=off
- Learning Together: Inclusive Education [music – Educational TV series. Composition and Studio Performance Recording.
- Umkhumbane: An Oral History [soundtrack]. Documentary film.
- Composition and Studio Performance Recording.
- Kwasukasukela (with Katherine Graaf-Raw). Stage Theatre. Music
- Composition and Performance.
- Yinkosi Yeziziba [music score & recording] (with Juergen Brauninger). Composition and Performance.
- http://ingedej.ukzn.ac.za/index.php.
- http://www.artsmart.co.za/music/archive/2644.html
- Women and Men Against Violence [music]. Educational TV series.
- Composition and Studio Recording Performance.
- The Sky in Her Eyes [soundtrack]. Film Soundtrack. Composition and
- Studio Performance Recording.
- http://stepsforthefuture.co.za/video/sky-eyes/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwVmhd7cI20
- Adventures At the Waterhole [soundtrack]. Animated film series.
- Composition and Studio Performance Recording.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2VbblvIsY8
- We Care [soundtrack]. Educational Television series. Composition and Studio Performance Recording.
- Takalani Sesame [music]. Educational Television /Radio series.
- Composition and Studio Performance Recording.
- African Tributes (with Darius Brubeck & The Natal University Jazz
- Connection). Composition and Performance. Audio CD album. https://www.discogs.com/release/13774734-Darius-Brubeck-And-The-NU-Jazz-Connection-African-Tributes
- · 1989. Zanusi (with Zanusi), CD album. Composition and Performance. https://www.discogs.com/release/11779111-Zanusi-Zanusi
Teaching Expertise
- Music and Society
- Music Culture and Society
- Music Culture and History
- African Music and Dance Ensemble
- Musical Bows
- Jazz Guitar
- Music Theory
- Aural Perception
- History of Jazz and Popular Music
- Ethnomusicology
- South African Black Popular Music
Student Supervision
Masters
PhD
Masters
- Mbobo Thandiwe Ms. 2024. Investigating the Relationship between Choral Music Programme Participation and Learner Academic Performance in Two Selected Schools in uMkhanyakude District, KwaZulu-Natal.
- Pakamisa Sibulele Ms. 2025. Investigating the Relationship Between Digital Social Media and the Reception of South African Popular Music: Amapiano Music and TikTok.
- Ntuli Asanda Mandisa Ms. 2025. Exploring the Physical Demands of Emotional Expression in Opera and the Pedagogical approaches to Developing Technical Mastery in the context of UKZN Howard.
PhD
- Basaini Bikani Mr. 2025. Dance, Identity, and Education: an ethnochoreological exploration of namastap and polka in Tsabong, Botswana.
- Nxumalo Sicelo Mr. 2025. An assessment of sound design methods applied by short film producers – a case study of EThekwini Municipality.
- Mashiloane Sibusiso J. 2024. A Musical Exploration of Home in South African Jazz: Hugh Masekela, Bheki Mseleku, and Sibusiso Mashiloane.