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Jeremy Taylor, known for his work as a satirist, songwriter and political commentator in South Africa and England, currently resides in the small rural town of Gizeux, France. Although widely recognised for his song ‘Ag Pleez Deddy’, Taylor is also responsible for composing the original music for the musical revue, Wait a Minim, and various other songs including ‘Piece of Ground’ that was recorded by Miriam Makeba in 1966. Arriving in South Africa in 1959, Taylor has had a unique vantage point from which to view the growth and development of South African folk music. In this interview, we explore Taylor’s musical career and reflect on his life and experiences of apartheid South Africa. The interview has been edited, annotated, and augmented with unpublished material from the Jeremy Taylor collection in the Hidden Years Music Archive.1 This archive is rich in newspaper clippings, texts, music manuscripts and photographs and is held by the Documentation Centre for Music, Stellenbosch University. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article explores how sites marked by loss can be activated and represented through sound, curatorship and mapping. We examine this by looking at a recent exhibition, Lingering Absences: Hearing Landscape Through Memory, that is based on the Eoan Group Archive. The Eoan Group was one of the first to produce full-scale opera productions in South Africa, yet their history remained largely unknown to the general public until 2006, when archival records that detailed the history of the group were uncovered. Drawing on this collection of material, and on an oral history project and book publication inspired by the Eoan Group Archive, the Lingering Absences exhibition worked with ideas of dislocation, absence and discomfort as a way of engaging with traumatic pasts, thereby deliberately avoiding a chronological and teleological reproduction of the Eoan Group's history. Investigating the methodologies that were used to conceptualise and execute the exhibition, this article engages with curatorial sound mapping as a creative research practice through which to explore the intersection of memory, sound, body and place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]