Louise Meintjes, Marcello Lotti Professor and Professor

Office Location:	072 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC
Office Phone:	+1 919 660 3339
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://ca-www.aas.duke.edu/~meintjes

Teaching (Spring 2024):   (typical courses)

• Culanth 890s.01, Advanced selected topics Synopsis

  Biddle 113a, W 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

• Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin 1997
• M.Mus. University of Texas, Austin 1988
• B.Mus. University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) 1982

Specialties:

Africa

Popular Culture

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Meintjes, L. Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio. Duke University Press, January, 2003.
2. Porcello, T; Meintjes, L; Ochoa, AM; Samuels, DW. "The reorganization of the sensory world." Annual Review of Anthropology  vol. 39 no. 1 (October, 2010): 51-66. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
3. Samuels, DW; Meintjes, L; Ochoa, AM; Porcello, T. "Soundscapes: Toward a sounded anthropology." Annual Review of Anthropology  vol. 39 no. 1 (October, 2010): 329-345. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
4. 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  vol. 13 no. 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).)