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Louise Meintjes

Title: Associate Professor of Music
Office Location: 072 Mary Duke Biddle
Office Phone: (919) 660-3339
Email Address: meintjes@duke.edu

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

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Frederick Burkhard Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, ACLS, 2007
  • Nadia and Nicholas Nahumck Fellowship, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2006
  • Jaap Kunst Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, 0 2005
  • Thomas Langford Lecture Award, Duke University, 2004
  • Finalist, ARSC Award for Excellence: Best Research in Recorded Popular Music, for Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio, 0 2004
  • Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Music, Duke University, 2001/02
  • Rockefeller Fellowship, Institute on Violence, Culture and Survival, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2001/02
  • Rockefeller Fellowship in the Black Performing Arts, Stanford Humanities Center, 2001/02
  • Rockefeller Resident Fellowship (Gender-Race-Ethnicity: Re-articulating the Local and the Global), Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, 2001/02
  • Carly Hunt Individual Research Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2000
  • Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1994/95
  • Dissertation Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 1994/95
  • Zora Neal Hurston Fellowship, African Humanities Institute, Northwestern University, 1994/95
  • Doctoral Prestige Scholarship, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 1992/93, renewed 1993-1995
  • Research Grant, National Science Foundation, 1991/92
  • Predoctoral Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1990/91
  • Charles Seeger Award, Society of Ethnomusicology, 1988/89
  • Fulbright Scholarship, 1984
  • Harry Crossley Grant, South Africa, 1984/85, renewed 1986-1991
  • Undergraduate Merit Awards, University of Stellenbosch, 1979-82

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • Culanth 186a.16, Independent study
  • Culanth 186b.16, Research independent study
  • Culanth 380s.03, Advanced selected topics
  • Music 382s.01, Studies in ethnomusicol(top)
    Biddle 069, Tu 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
  • Culanth 393.16, Individual research
  • Culanth 399.16, Special readings

Teaching (Spring 2010):

  • Music 120.02, Adv special topics in music Synopsis
    Allen 103, WF 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • Music 136.01, World music Synopsis
    Biddle 102, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
  • Culanth 180.01, The arts and human rights Synopsis
    Allen 103, WF 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • Ethics 180.04, Special topics in ethics Synopsis
    Allen 103, WF 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • Pubpol 196.04, Selected topics Synopsis
    Allen 103, WF 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • Polsci 199d.01, The arts & human rights Synopsis
    Allen 103, WF 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

Selected Professional Work:

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    Articles

  • L. Meintjes. "O sentimento da política: produzindo ‘zuluidade’ em um estúdio de gravação sul-africano. [The Feeling of Politics: Producing Zuluness in a South African Studio.]." Debates 8 (2005): 78-92. Translated by Cláudia Souza Nunes Azevedo.
    Articles in Books
  • L. Meintjes. "The Politics of the Recording Studio: A Case Study from South Africa." The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music. Edited by Nicholas Cook, Eric Clarke, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, and John Rink. Cambridge University Press 2009.
    Reviews
  • L. Meintjes, The World of South African Music: A Reader edited by C. Lucia (Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005). Journal of Southern African Studies 34:1 (2008): 234-236.
  • L. Meintjes, Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions by Kofi Agawu (Routledge, 2003). Journal of the American Musicological Society 59:3 (2007): 769-777.
    Others
        Other
    • The Word on Music: A Symposium Celebrating Duke University Press, John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies, Sep 9-10, 2005
      Co-organized with Kelley Tatro and Joyce Kurpiers.
    • Music in Conflict and Reconciliation: A Workshop, , Jan 12-13, 2004
      Co-organized with Paul Berliner. Hosted by the John Hope Franklin Center for international and Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University. Sponsored by the Arts Committee, Social Sciences Research Council.

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