“Nachwuchsfordering” was demonstrated as a highly successful tool for youth development in the JAA inaugural tour event of 16th to 18th specifically on 17th of December 2022 during which well-established and highly professional international musicians from Germany, London, Denmark and Canada worked together with the youth of the underserved community of Duncan Village. This is the township which nurtured and produced the jazz giant, Johnny Dyani.
JAAs main aim is what Germans call Nachwuchsförderung. What is that? It is a nationally recognised tradition and policy by which knowledge and skills are purposefully transferred from the current generation to the next. In this context the veteran Jazz musicians hold capacity building and training jazz workshops directed at interested and upcoming youth from the townships.
Nachwuchsförderung- the conscious policy and practice of transferring societal values, knowledge and skills to the next generation – as a core focus for Jazz Against Apartheid in the skills transfer between Europe and South Africa.
Nachwuchsförderung is a powerful tool for youth music education and development, and particularly the underserved communities of the townships and rural areas and in restoring cultural memory.
- Music tuition across musical instruments of all categories including strings, percussion and brass, and performance in a group setting (collaboration).
- General knowledge tuition pride in the township and a shared awareness of the role Jazz artists from the EC played in the international struggle against apartheid including the subsequent richness of the artistic heritage that has been cultivated over decades in Europe and especially in Germany.
- Professional skills development and transfer through access to these well-established international professional contributors and the contemporary influences from their own projects.
- Cultural Exchange through the live and streamed event
- Partner with universities, offering jazz, culture and development courses in Eastern Cape and Germany. So that the mentorship may build towards a syllabus based direction. And once more talented students may have further opportunity to apply for such tertiary education.
- Youth band: Grow the music tuition into the long-term creation of a resident Jazz Against Apartheid youth band in the Eastern Cape.
- Database of students, institutions and study opportunities for future music and creative economy practitioners in Germany thus growing the cultural exchange.
- On-the-job training for youth jazz and culture learners to work on the Jazz Against Apartheid festival (that happens alongside the mentorship programme). The on-the-job training would be goal oriented, supervised and assessed.
- Dialogue Sessions offering skills transfer and building towards longer-term research exchanges, between institutes, archives and universities.
Our capacity building training manual draws on the education series Story of South African Jazz, Mbizo yamaKhono (gathering of the arts) and the Johnny Mbizo Dyani Songbook and has as its primary attention the ease of accessibility for Southern African arts and culture knowledge in Southern African schools. music@sausagefilms.co.za
Our approach to on-the-job-training has made Jazz Against Apartheid a forerunner in creative skills development in undeserved communities of South Africa. Join the mission for equality.,
INCLUSIVE AND REPRESENTATIVE: Some of the most ancient people and musical instruments come from the region East London where the famous South African click sounds are known to originate. Some of the earliest instruments used were percussion and vocals. Even today in a highly modernised world – percussions and vocals can be created, taught and used totally for free. East London SA has a history of Choral music that includes some of the finest composers the country if South Africa has not yet celebrated. Percussion can be made through body percussion, or from recycled junk material allowing for community centres to create year-round projects of vocal and percussion “junk orchestra’s” that may sustain and earn income for the centres at festivals, events or through busking.