Louise Meintjes: 2 books
Sound of Africa!
Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2003
Boosting the bass guitar, blending the vocals, overdubbing percussion while fretting over shoot-outs in the street. Grumbling about a producer, teasing a white engineer, challenging an artist to feel his African beat. Sound of Africa! is a riveting account of the production of a mbaqanga album in...
Dust of the Zulu
Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Contextualizing ngoma within South Africa's history of violence, migrant labor, the HIV...