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:
(More...)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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.