Scholars@Duke
Louise Meintjes

Louise Meintjes

Marcello Lotti Professor
Music
meintjes@duke.edu
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
072 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

THE RECORDING STUDIO AS FETISH

Journal article · January 1, 2024 I'd come whizzing into the city center on my bicycle. Past the taxi rank where vendors sell oranges, Lux soap, cassettes, and haircuts; past the dilapidated Georgeson Mansions where Isigqi Sesimanje's Joana overlooks the noisy taxi rank from her sixth-floo ... Full text 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