Publications of Louise Meintjes    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

1. Meintjes, L. Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid. Duke University Press Books, August, 2017. 360 pages pp.  [abs]
2. Meintjes, L. Dust of the Zulu. Duke University Press, July, 2017. [doi]  [abs]
3. L. Meintjes. Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Song, Dance and Masculinity in the Post Apartheid Struggle. in progress.
4. Meintjes, L. Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio. Duke University Press, January, 2003.

Published Articles

1. Meintjes, L. "Louise Meintjes Ululation." REMAPPING SOUND STUDIES  ( 2019.): 61-76.
2. Meintjes, L. "Hi-fi sociality, Lo-fi sound: Affect and precarity in an independent South African recording studio." State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa: Enchantings  (January, 2017.): 207-223.
3. Meintjes, L. "The Recording Studio as Fetish." The Sound Studies Reader. Edited by Sterne, J.  ( 2012.).
4. Meintjes, L; Meintjes, L; Ochoa, AM; Porcello, T; Samuels, DW. "Ethnomusicology." Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Edited by Jackson, J.  ( 2012.).
5. Meintjes, L. "The Recording Studio as Fetish."   ( 2012.).
6. 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]
7. 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]
8. Samuels, D; L. Meintjes, A Ochoa, T Porcello. "Soundscapes: Toward a Sounded Anthropology." Annual Review of Anthropology  vol. 39 no. 329-345 ( 2010.).
9. Porcello, Thomas, Louise Meintjes, Ana Maria Ochoa, and David Samuels. "The Reorganization of the Sensory World." Annual Review of Anthropology  vol. 39 ( 2010.): 51-66.
10. Meintjes, L. "The Politics of the Recording Studio: A Case Study from South Africa." The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music. Edited by Cook, N; Clarke, E; Leech-Wilkinson, D; Rink, J.  ( 2009.).
11. Meintjes, L. "The World of South African Music: A Reader edited by C. Lucia (Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005)." Journal of Southern African Studies  vol. 34 no. 1 ( 2008.): 234-236.
12. Meintjes, L. "Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions by Kofi Agawu (Routledge, 2003)." Journal of the American Musicological Society  vol. 59 no. 3 ( 2007.): 769-777.
13. Meintjes, L. "Dispare al Sargento, Derrumbe la Montaña: La Producción de la Masculinidad por medio del canto y baile Zulú "Ngoma" en la Suráfrica Post-Apartheid." Trans: Revista Transcultural de Música/Transcultural Music Review  vol. 10 ( 2006.). (translated by Cruz, S; Ochoa Gautier, AM)
14. Meintjes, L. "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  vol. 8 ( 2005.): 78-92. (Translated by Cláudia Souza Nunes Azevedo.)
15. Meintjes, L. ""Reaching Overseas: South African Sound Engineers, Technology and Tradition"." Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures. Edited by Greene, P; Porcello, T.  ( 2004.): 23-48.
16. 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).)
17. Meintjes, L. ""Heritage and Politics: An Ethnomusicological Perspective on Nation Building and Construction of the Past"."   (May, 2003.). (Unpublished position paper prepared for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research)
18. Meintjes, L. "Entries on DownTown Studios and EMI(South Africa)." Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume One: Media, Culture and the Industry. Edited by Shepherd, ; Laing,.  ( 2002.).
19. Meintjes, L. ""Hugh Masekela", and "Abdullah Ibrahim"." The New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians  ( 2001.).
20. MEINTJES, L. "In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants. DAVID B. COPLAN." American Ethnologist  vol. 23 no. 3 (August, 1996.): 648-648. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
21. Meintjes, L. "Marabi Nights: Early South African Jazz and Vaudeville by C. Ballantine (Ravan Press, 1993)." Popular Music  vol. 15 no. 2 ( 1996.): 245-247.
22. Meintjes, L. ""John Lindemann" and "West Nkosi"." The Rough Guide to World Music. Edited by Broughton, EEA. 1st edition ( 1994.).
23. Meintjes, L. "African Stars: Studies in Black South African Performance by V. Erlmann (U Chicago Press, 1991)." Popular Music  vol. 11 no. 3 (October, 1992.): 378-380.
24. Meintjes, L. ""Paul Simon's Graceland, South Africa, and the Mediation of Musical Meaning"." Ethnomusicology  vol. 34 no. 1 (Winter, 1990.): 37-73. (Reprinted in Popular Music: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, Simon Frith (ed), London: Routledge, (2004). Translated for reprint in Korean Journal of Musicology (forthcoming).)

Other

1. L. Meintjes. ""Oswenka: Zulu swankers' dress competition"."   (March, 2004.). (a collaborative sound-sight exhibition with TJ Lemon (photography), John Bower (soundscape compilation), and Louise Meintjes (field recording and collaboration co-ordinator). Exhibited at the John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University)