Louise Meintjes
| Title: | Associate Professor of Music |
| Office Location: | 072 Mary Duke Biddle |
| Office Phone: | +1 919 660 3339 |
| Email Address: | meintjes@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD University of Texas, 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
Miscellaneous
Dust of the Zulu: Zulu Ngoma Song and Dance in post-Apartheid South Africa
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Jaap Kunst Prize, 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
- Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation grant (Medical Ethics and Humanities), Duke University, 2002-2003
- Rockefeller Fellowship, Institute on Violence, Culture and Survival, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2001-2002 (Declined)
- Rockefeller Resident Fellowship, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, 2001-2002 (Declined)
- Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Music, 2001/02
- Rockefeller Fellowship in the Black Performing Arts, Stanford Humanities Center, 2001/02
- Individual Research Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2000
- Faculty Summer research grant, Duke University, 1998, 1999
- Major Project and Artist-in-residence Grant, Institute of the Arts, Duke University, 1997, 1999, 2000-2003
- Small Projects Grant, Institute of the Arts, Duke University, 1996, 1998
- Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1994/95
- Dissertation Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas, 1994/95
- Zora Neal Hurston Fellowship, African Humanities Institute, Northwestern University, 1994/95
- International Peace Scholarship, P.E.O. Organization, USA, 1994/95
- Doctoral Prestige Scholarship, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 1992/93, renewed 1993/94, 1994/95
- National Science Foundation Research Grant (USA), 1990-1991
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Predoctoral Grant, 1990-1991
- International Peace Scholarship, P.E.O. Organisation, USA, 1987/88, 1988/89, 1989/90
- Kaltenborn Foundation Grant, for predoctoral research (USA), 1989
- Effie Potts Sibley Foundation Scholarship, Music Department, University of Texas, 1989/90
- Charles Seeger Award, Society of Ethnomusicology Annual National Meeting, 1988/89
- Carl & Agnes Stockard Memorial Scholarship, Music Department, University of Texas, 1988/89
- Human Sciences Research Council Masters Degree Bursary, South Africa, 1986
- Fulbright Scholarship, 1984/85, 1985/86, 1986/87
- Pansy Luedecke Scholarship, Music Department, University of Texas, 1986/87
- Harry Crossley Grant (South Africa), 1984-1985, 1986-1991
- Human Sciences Research Council Masters Degree Bursary, South Africa, 1986
- Effie Potts Sibley Foundation Scholarship, Music Department, University of Texas, 1984/85, 1985/86
- Human Sciences Research Council Honours Degree Bursary, South Africa, 1983
- Undergraduate Merit Awards, University of Stellenbosch, 1979-82
Teaching (Fall 2008):
- Music 120.03, Adv special topics in music
Synopsis
- Biddle 086, WF 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
- Music 138s.02, Sp top ethnomusicology
Synopsis
- Frdl bldg 216, Th 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
- Culanth 180s.02, Current issues (topics)
Synopsis
- Frdl bldg 216, Th 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
- Aaas 199.04, Special topics
- Biddle 086, WF 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
Recent Professional Work:
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- L. Meintjes. "The Feeling of Politics: Producing Zuluness is a South African Studio." Debates (forthcoming). [author's comments]
- L. Meintjes. ""Reaching Overseas: South African Sound Engineers, Technology and Tradition"." Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures (2004).
- 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 (2004).
- L. Meintjes, Review of Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions by Kofi Agawu (Routledge, 2003). Journal of the American Musicological Society (forthcoming).
Other Activities:
- Shifting the Geographies and Biographies of Knowlege, John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies, Nov 4, 2005
A workshop hosted by the Center for Globalization and the Humanities, featuring Ana Maria Ochoa (NYU), with guest commentators Arturo Escobar (UNC-Chapel HIll) and Anne-Maria Makhulu (Duke). Co-ordinated with Walter Mignolo as one of a series of four workshops on the same theme. - 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 (Dept Music); Ten visiting scholars (musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, history, cultural studies) and two music performances. - 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.