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Louise Meintjes, Director of Graduate Studies

Louise Meintjes
Office Location:  210 Friedl/072 Mary Duke Biddle
Office Phone:  (919) 681-3263/(919) 660-3339
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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
Education:
  • 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).)

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