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Louise Meintjes
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Associate Professor of Music |
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072 Mary Duke Biddle/210 Friedl |
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(919) 660-3339/681 3263 |
| 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. Declined., 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). Declined., 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
Selected Professional Work: (More...)
Books - L. Meintjes. Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio. Duke University Press, January, 2003 .
Articles - T. Porcello, L. Meintjes, A-M Ochoa, D Samuels. "The Reorganization of the Sensory World." Annual Review of Anthropology (2010).
- D Samuels, L. Meintjes, A-M Ochoa, T. Porcello. "Soundscapes: Towards a Sounded Anthropology." Annual Review of Anthropology (2010).
- 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 13.2 (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).
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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