Duke Cultural Anthropology

Publications of Louise Meintjes

• Books

  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (in progress).
    • Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Song, Dance and Masculinity in the Post Apartheid Struggle.
  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (2003).
    • Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio.
    • Duke University Press.

• Published Articles

  • • L. Meintjes, Meintjes, Louise; Ochoa, Ana María; Porcello, Thomas; Samuels, David W...
    • (2012).
    • Ethnomusicology.
    • In John Jackson (Eds.),
    • Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology
    • New York:
    • Oxford University Press,.
  • • Samuels, D; L. Meintjes, A Ochoa, T Porcello.
    • (2010).
    • Soundscapes: Toward a Sounded Anthropology.
    • Annual Review of Anthropology
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    • 39
    • (329-345)
    • .
  • • Porcello, Thomas, Louise Meintjes, Ana Maria Ochoa, and David Samuels.
    • (2010).
    • The Reorganization of the Sensory World.
    • Annual Review of Anthropology
    • ,
    • 39
    • ,
    • 51-66.
  • • T. Porcello, L. Meintjes, A-M Ochoa, D Samuels.
    • (2010).
    • The Reorganization of the Sensory World.
    • Annual Review of Anthropology
    • .
  • • D Samuels, L. Meintjes, A-M Ochoa, T. Porcello.
    • (2010).
    • Soundscapes: Towards a Sounded Anthropology.
    • Annual Review of Anthropology
    • .
  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (2005).
    • 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
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    • 8
    • ,
    • 78-92.
    • (Translated by Cláudia Souza Nunes Azevedo.)
  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (2004).
    • Shoot the Sergeant, Shatter the Mountain: The production of masculinity in Zulu Ngoma Song and Dance in post Apartheid South Africa.
    • Ethnomusicology Forum
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    • 13
    • (2)
    • ,
    • 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).)
  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (May, 2003).
    • "Heritage and Politics: An Ethnomusicological Perspective on Nation Building and Construction of the Past".
    • .
    • (Unpublished position paper prepared for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research)
  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (2002).
    • Entries on DownTown Studios and EMI(South Africa).
    • In Shepherd and Laing (Eds.),
    • Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume One: Media, Culture and the Industry
    • Cassell: London.
  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (2001).
    • "Hugh Masekela", and "Abdullah Ibrahim".
    • The New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians
    • .
  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (1994).
    • "John Lindemann" and "West Nkosi".
    • In Broughton, Ellingham et al. (Eds.),
    • The Rough Guide to World Music
    • ,
    • 1st edition
    • The Rough Guides: London.
  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (Winter 1990).
    • "Paul Simon's Graceland, South Africa, and the Mediation of Musical Meaning".
    • Ethnomusicology
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    • 34
    • (1)
    • ,
    • 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).)

• Articles in Books

  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (2012).
    • The Recording Studio as Fetish.
    • In J. Sterne (Eds.),
    • The Sound Studies Reader
    • Routledge.
  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (2009).
    • The Politics of the Recording Studio: A Case Study from South Africa.
    • In Nicholas Cook, Eric Clarke, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, and John Rink (Eds.),
    • The Cambridge Companion to Recorded Music
    • Cambridge University Press.
  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (2004).
    • "Reaching Overseas: South African Sound Engineers, Technology and Tradition".
    • In P. Greene and T. Porcello (Eds.),
    • Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures
    • ,
    • (pp. 23-48).
    • Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.

• Book Reviews

  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (2008).
    • The World of South African Music: A Reader edited by C. Lucia (Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005).
    • Journal of Southern African Studies
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    • 34
    • (1)
    • ,
    • 234-236.
  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (2007).
    • Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions by Kofi Agawu (Routledge, 2003).
    • Journal of the American Musicological Society
    • ,
    • 59
    • (3)
    • ,
    • 769-777.
  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (1996).
    • In the Time of Cannibals:The word music of South Africa’s Basotho migrants by David Copland (U Chicago Press, 1994).
    • American Ethnologist
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    • 23
    • (3)
    • ,
    • 648.
  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (1996).
    • Marabi Nights: Early South African Jazz and Vaudeville by C. Ballantine (Ravan Press, 1993).
    • Popular Music
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    • 15
    • (2)
    • ,
    • 245-247.
  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (1992).
    • African Stars: Studies in Black South African Performance by V. Erlmann (U Chicago Press, 1991).
    • Popular Music
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    • 11
    • (3)
    • ,
    • 378-380.

• Other

  • • L. Meintjes.
    • (March, 2004).
    • "Oswenka: Zulu swankers' dress competition".
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    • (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)