B.Mus. University of Stellenbosch (South Africa), 1982
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
Ernest Bloch Lectures Visiting Professorship, University of California-Berkeley, Department of Music, 0 2022
Alan Merriam Prize, Society for Ethnomusicolopgy, 0 2018
Gregory Bateson Book Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology, 0 2018
Fellow, National Humanities Center, 0 2007
Frederick Burkhard Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, ACLS, 2007
Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellows, American Council of Learned Societies, 0 2007
Nadia and Nicholas Nahumck Fellowship, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2006
Jaap Kunst Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, 0 2005
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
Finalist, best research in recorded popular music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards of Excellence, 0 2004
Thomas Langford Lecture Award, Duke University, 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
Meintjes, L. Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio. Duke University Press, January, 2003 .
Articles
Porcello, T; Meintjes, L; Ochoa, AM; Samuels, DW. "The reorganization of the sensory world." Annual Review of Anthropology 39.1 (October, 2010): 51-66. [Gateway.cgi], [doi] [abs]
Samuels, DW; Meintjes, L; Ochoa, AM; Porcello, T. "Soundscapes: Toward a sounded anthropology." Annual Review of Anthropology 39.1 (October, 2010): 329-345. [Gateway.cgi], [doi] [abs]
Meintjes, L. "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.
