Publications [#376375] of Louise Meintjes

Articles

1. Meintjes, L. "THE RECORDING STUDIO AS FETISH."   (January, 2024): 77-84. [doi]
   (last updated on 2025/04/22)

   Abstract:
   I'd come whizzing into the city center on my bicycle. Past the taxi rank where vendors sell oranges, Lux soap, cassettes, and haircuts; past the dilapidated Georgeson Mansions where Isigqi Sesimanje's Joana overlooks the noisy taxi rank from her sixth-floor flat; past record bars blasting the latest house-music out into the sunshine; past the previous Gallo building and the isicathamiya hall above the parking garage opposite it; past musician-dancers Muhle and Mdlolo's room on the corner of Kerk and Bree, just a block west from where musicians Siyazi, Msawetshitshi, and Nogabisela live and a block east from Gallo's 1940s to 1960s headquarters, where records are sculpted like cherubs high up on its concrete walls. I hurtle past Shandel Music, down past Soul Brothers Music. Musicians cruise in and out up to the Soul Brothers’ rehearsal rooms. David Masondo, one of the famous Brothers, parks his gold Mercedes. At the next intersection, the corner-shop barber greets me from his spot in the sun (his is not a frenetic business).