Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin 1997
  • M.Mus., University of Texas, Austin 1988
  • B.Mus., University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) 1982
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Associate Professor of Music, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2004 - 2020
  • Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005 - 2020
  • Assistant Professor of Music, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1997 - 2004
  • Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2001 - 2002
  • Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2000 - 2001
  • Lecturer, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1996 - 1997
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • JUN 15, 2021

    10 Books About Music from Duke Authors

  • MAY 20, 2019

    Duke Arts

    At the Ruby: Dust of the Zulu Exhibit Makes for a Sonic Environment
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  Awards & Honors

  • Fellow. National Humanities Center. 2007
  • Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellows. American Council of Learned Societies. 2007
  • Jaap Kunst Prize. Society for Ethnomusicology. 2005
  • Finalist, best research in recorded popular music, for Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio (Duke University Press, 2003).. Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards of Excellence . 2004
  • Thomas Langford Lecture Award for recently tenured faculty. Duke University, .. 2004
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Listening
  • Mediation
  • Music
  • Senses and sensation
  • Sound
  • South Africa
  • Voice
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • South Africa (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship awarded by  American Council of Learned Societies 2021 - 2022
  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Sounding the City: Noise Regulation and Everyday Rhythms in Gulu, Uganda awarded by  National Science Foundation 2017 - 2018
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Meintjes, L. Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid (Accepted). Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2017.
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    • Meintjes, Louise. Dust of the Zulu. Duke University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373636.
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    • Meintjes, L. Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio. Duke University Press, 2003.

  • Academic Articles

    • Meintjes, L. “The Recording Studio as Fetish.” Edited by J. Sterne, 2012.
    • Porcello, T., L. Meintjes, A. M. Ochoa, and D. W. Samuels. “The reorganization of the sensory world.” Annual Review of Anthropology 39 (October 21, 2010): 51–66. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.105042.
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    • Samuels, D. W., L. Meintjes, A. M. Ochoa, and T. Porcello. “Soundscapes: Toward a sounded anthropology.” Annual Review of Anthropology 39 (October 21, 2010): 329–45. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-022510-132230.
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    • Meintjes, L. “The World of South African Music: A Reader edited by C. Lucia (Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005).” Journal of Southern African Studies 34 (2008): 234–36.
    • Meintjes, L. “Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions by Kofi Agawu (Routledge, 2003).” Journal of the American Musicological Society 59 (2007): 769–77.
    • Meintjes, L. “Dispare al Sargento, Derrumbe la Montaña: La Producción de la Masculinidad por medio del canto y baile Zulú "Ngoma" en la Suráfrica Post-Apartheid.” Translated by Sebastián Cruz and Ana María Ochoa Gautier. Trans: Revista Transcultural De MúSica/Transcultural Music Review 10 (2006).
    • Meintjes, L. “O sentimento da política: produzindo ‘zuluidade’ em um estúdio de gravação sul-africano. [The Feeling of Politics: Producing Zuluness in a South African Studio.].” Debates 8 (2005): 78–92.
    • Meintjes, L. “Shoot the Sergeant, Shatter the Mountain: The production of masculinity in Zulu Ngoma Song and Dance in post Apartheid South Africa.” Ethnomusicology Forum 13, no. 2 (2004): 173–201.
    • Meintjes, L. “"Heritage and Politics: An Ethnomusicological Perspective on Nation Building and Construction of the Past",” May 2003.
    • MEINTJES, L. O. U. I. S. E. “In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants . DAVID B. COPLAN.” American Ethnologist 23, no. 3 (August 1996): 648–648. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1996.23.3.02a00200.
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    • Meintjes, L. “Marabi Nights: Early South African Jazz and Vaudeville by C. Ballantine (Ravan Press, 1993).” Popular Music 15 (1996): 245–47.
    • Meintjes, L. “African Stars: Studies in Black South African Performance by V. Erlmann (U Chicago Press, 1991).” Popular Music 11 (October 1992): 378–80.
    • Meintjes, L. “"Paul Simon's Graceland, South Africa, and the Mediation of Musical Meaning".” Ethnomusicology 34, no. 1 (December 1990): 37–73.

  • Book Sections

    • Meintjes, L. “Hi-fi sociality, Lo-fi sound: Affect and precarity in an independent South African recording studio.” In State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa: Enchantings, 207–23, 2017.
    • Meintjes, L. “The Recording Studio as Fetish.” In The Sound Studies Reader, edited by J. Sterne. Routledge, 2012.
    • Meintjes, L., Louise Meintjes, Ana María Ochoa, Thomas Porcello, and David W. Samuels. “Ethnomusicology.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology, edited by John Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2012.
    • Meintjes, L. “The Politics of the Recording Studio: A Case Study from South Africa.” In The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music, edited by Nicholas Cook, Eric Clarke, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, and John Rink. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
    • Meintjes, L. “"Reaching Overseas: South African Sound Engineers, Technology and Tradition".” In Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures, edited by P. Greene and T. Porcello, 23–48. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2004.
    • Meintjes, L. “Entries on DownTown Studios and EMI(South Africa).” In Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume One: Media, Culture and the Industry, edited by L. Shepherd and L. Laing. Cassell: London, 2002.
    • Meintjes, L. “"Hugh Masekela", and "Abdullah Ibrahim".” In The New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001.
    • Meintjes, L. “"John Lindemann" and "West Nkosi".” In The Rough Guide to World Music, edited by Ellingham et al Broughton. The Rough Guides: London, 1994.
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  Artistic Works & Non-Print Media

  • Installations

    • Oswenka: Zulu swankers’ dress competition. Curator. 2004

  • Radio/television Programs

    • Afropop Worldwide: The Zulu Factor. Consultant. 2008
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • CULANTH 790S: Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology 2023
  • MUSIC 790S-2: Studies in Ethnomusicology 2023
  • CULANTH 890S: Advanced Selected Topics 2022
  • MUSIC 790S-2: Studies in Ethnomusicology 2022
  • CULANTH 744S: Mobility 2021
  • CULANTH 890S: Advanced Selected Topics 2021
  • MUSIC 790S-2: Studies in Ethnomusicology 2021
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • GLOBALMUS International Workshop. December 14, 2012  2012
  • II Simpósio Brasileiro de Pós-Graduandos em Música (one of main speakers). December 14, 2012  2012
  • School of Music lecture series. December 14, 2012  2012
  • Symposium: “Enchantings: Modernity, Culture, and the State in Postcolonial Africa.". December 14, 2012  2012
  • Class of 1960 Fellow, Music department residency.. December 18, 2011  2011
  • Music Colloquium. December 18, 2011  2011
  • Music Dept lecture series. December 18, 2011  2011
  • Luck with Bones: Ngoma cultural Brokerage on the world music circuit. November 19, 2010  2010
  • Seminar participation: Contemporary Soundspaces: Sound, Agency, and the Politics of Value. November 19, 2010  2010
  • Richard Bauman Lecture in human communication. October 6, 2010  2010
  • Invited lecture, Distinguished Lecture Series, Musicology Dept. October 1, 2010  2010
  • Invited Lecture, Dept of Anthropology. May 17, 2010  2010
  • Invited Conference: Listening In/Feeding Back. November 30, 2009  2009
  • Introduction to Keynote Speaker, Society for Ethnomusicology conference. November 21, 2009  2009
  • Panel discussant: Sonic Mediation and Studio Technology, Society for Ethnomusicology conference. November 21, 2009  2009
  • Invited Lecture: Ethnomusicology Colloquium, Music Dept, UC-Berkeley. November 4, 2009  2009
  • Invited Conference: Digital economies and the politics of circulation. April 1, 2009  2009
  • Invited lecture: "Music on Trial". Presented with Catherine Admay (Public Policy) and Ferhat Tunc (Turkish visiting artist), NCUS Dept Music.. March 1, 2009  2009
  • On Silences and Dancing Around the Truth in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. November 24, 2008  2008
  • Dancing Around the Truth in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. October 3, 2008  2008
  • Fellows panel, annual meeting of the ACLS.. May 9, 2008  2008
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Bass Connections Faculty Team Member . NC Jukebox. August 2015 - May 2016  2015 - 2016
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  Service to the Profession

  • Participant. Faculty Short Course on Improving Departmental Climate. Duke Office of Faculty Advancement & Duke Office of Institutional Equity. August 2, 2021 - August 5, 2021  2021
  • Participant. Faculty Curriculum on Anti-Racism. Duke Office of Faculty Advancement. January 11, 2021 - January 14, 2021  2021
  • Editorial Board member, Journal of African Cultural Studies. 2012  2012
  • Tenure reviews. December 18, 2011  2011
  • Member : International Board of Advisers, African Musicology Online. 2010  2010
  • Member : MA thesis committee. 2010  2010
  • Undergraduate Program External Review Committee, UC-Riverside Dept. Music. November 4, 2009  2009
  • Editorial board member Ethnomusicology Forum. 2009  2009
  • Editorial board member Journal of Ethnomusicology. 2009 - 2012  2009 - 2012
  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award nominator. December 4, 2008  2008
  • Chair : Nahumck Prize committee. January 5, 2008  2008
  • Editorial Board. January 5, 2008  2008
  • Herskovits Book Prize committee. January 5, 2008  2008
  • Nominator. January 5, 2008  2008
  • Papers refereed. January 5, 2008  2008
  • Pre-selection fellowship review. January 5, 2008  2008
  • Tenure review. January 5, 2008  2008

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