Research Interests for Louise Meintjes

Keywords:

dance, music technology, music and politics, arts and human rights, voice

Current projects:

Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Song and Dance in post-Apartheid South Africa.

Areas of Interest:

Southern Africa, music and dance, voice, arts and human rights, the politics of cultural production

Representative Publications

1. L. Meintjes, Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio (January, 2003), Duke University Press
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), 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)..)