Louise Meintjes, Director of Graduate Studies

Office Location:	210 Friedl/072 Mary Duke Biddle
Office Phone:	(919) 681-3263/(919) 660-3339
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://ca-www.aas.duke.edu/~meintjes

Typical Courses Taught:

• Culanth 180, Current issues (topics) Synopsis

• Music 136, World music Synopsis

• Music 120, Adv special topics in music Synopsis

• Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin 1997
• Masters of Music University of Texas at Austin 1989
• Hons-B.Mus (cum laude) University of Stellenbosch 1983
• B. Mus (cum laude) Uninversity of Stellenbosch 1982

Specialties:

Africa

Popular Culture

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. L. Meintjes. Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio. Duke University Press, January, 2003.
2. T. Porcello, L. Meintjes, A-M Ochoa, D Samuels. "The Reorganization of the Sensory World." Annual Review of Anthropology  (2010).
3. D Samuels, L. Meintjes, A-M Ochoa, T. Porcello. "Soundscapes: Towards a Sounded Anthropology." Annual Review of Anthropology  (2010).
4. L. Meintjes. "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): 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).)