Louise Meintjes: 2 books

Book cover of Sound of Africa!

Sound of Africa!

Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio

by Louise Meintjes
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...
Book cover of Dust of the Zulu

Dust of the Zulu

Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid

by Louise Meintjes, TJ Lemon
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...
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