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Louise Meintjes, Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies and Graduate Faculty, Music

Contact Info:

Office Location:	072 Mary Duke Biddle
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3339
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• CULANTH 890S.01, ADVANCED SELECTED TOPICS Synopsis

  Biddle 113A, W 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

  (also cross-listed as MUSIC 790S-2.01)

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Texas, Austin	1997
M.Mus.	University of Texas, Austin	1988
B.Mus.	University of Stellenbosch (South Africa)	1982

Specialties:

Africa
Ethnomusicology
Popular Culture

Research Interests: South African Music and Anthropology

Keywords:

Africa • South Africa • Music • Anthropology

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Spencer Orey  
• Darren Mueller  
• Matthew A. Somoroff  
• Kristina Jakobsen  
• Kelley Tatro  
• Benjamin R Crawford  
• Joyce C. Kurpiers  
• Jenny Woodruff  
• Jessica L Wood  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Meintjes, L, Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio (January, 2003), Duke University Press
2. Porcello, T; Meintjes, L; Ochoa, AM; Samuels, DW, The reorganization of the sensory world, Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 39 no. 1 (October, 2010), pp. 51-66, ANNUAL REVIEWS, ISSN 0084-6570 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
3. Samuels, DW; Meintjes, L; Ochoa, AM; Porcello, T, Soundscapes: Toward a sounded anthropology, Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 39 no. 1 (October, 2010), pp. 329-345, ANNUAL REVIEWS, ISSN 0084-6570 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
4. 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, vol. 13 no. 2 (2004), pp. 173-201 (Also appears as ”Maten al soldado: música y negociación de conflicto en Sudáfrica” translated by Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier in Revista Transcultural de Música/Transcultural Music Review 10 (2006)..)