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Louise Meintjes

Marcello Lotti Professor
Music
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
072 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC

Selected Publications


Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid

Book · August 11, 2017 In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Contextualizing ngoma within South Africa's h ... Link to item Cite

Dust of the Zulu

Book · July 21, 2017 In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Contextualizing ngoma within South Af ... Full text Cite

PREFACE

Chapter · 2017 Cite

The Recording Studio as Fetish

Journal Article · 2012 Cite

Ethnomusicology

Chapter · 2012 Cite

Soundscapes: Toward a sounded anthropology

Journal Article Annual Review of Anthropology · October 21, 2010 A generation of scholars in multiple disciplines has investigated sound in ways that are productive for anthropologists. We introduce the concept of soundscape as a modality for integrating this work into an anthropological approach. We trace its history a ... Full text Open Access Cite

The reorganization of the sensory world

Journal Article Annual Review of Anthropology · October 21, 2010 Although anthropological and critical social theory have a long interest in sensory experience, work on the senses has intensified within the past 20 years. This article traces three sensory genealogies within anthropology: the work of Ong and McLuhan as c ... Full text Open Access Cite

Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions by Kofi Agawu (Routledge, 2003)

Journal Article Journal of the American Musicological Society · 2007 Cite