Louise Meintjes
Biographic Data
| ID | 121683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Meintjes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Meintjes |
| SIGNATURE | MEINTJES L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Departments of Music and Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0665 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 215 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pooley, Thomas M
The Recording Studio As Fetish
I&s;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;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…
The Reorganization of the Sensory World
Although anthropological and critical social theory have a long interest in sensory experience, work on the senses has intensified within the past 20 years. This article traces three sensory genealogies within anthropology: the work of Ong and McLuhan as critiqued and advanced by David Howes and the Concordia Project; phenomenological studies as advanced by Paul Stoller; and a focus on materialities as advanced by Nadia Seremetakis. Studies of in…
Soundscapes
A generation of scholars in multiple disciplines has investigated sound in ways that are productive for anthropologists. We introduce the concept of soundscape as a modality for integrating this work into an anthropological approach. We trace its history as a response to the technological mediations and listening practices emergent in modernity and note its absence in the anthropological literature. We then trace the history of technology that ga…
Sound of Africa
Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio
Masekela, Hugh
In the Time of Cannibals
Paul Simon's Graceland, South Africa, and the Mediation of Musical Meaning
The presence of style indicates strong community, an intense sociability that has been given shape through time, an assertion of control over collective feelings so powerful that any expressive innovator will necessarily put his or her content into that shaping continuum and no other. (Keil 1985:122)
Soundscapes
A generation of scholars in multiple disciplines has investigated sound in ways that are productive for anthropologists. We introduce the concept of soundscape as a modality for integrating this work into an anthropological approach. We trace its history as a response to the technological mediations and listening practices emergent in modernity and note its absence in the anthropological literature. We then trace the history of technology that ga…
The Reorganization of the Sensory World
Although anthropological and critical social theory have a long interest in sensory experience, work on the senses has intensified within the past 20 years. This article traces three sensory genealogies within anthropology: the work of Ong and McLuhan as critiqued and advanced by David Howes and the Concordia Project; phenomenological studies as advanced by Paul Stoller; and a focus on materialities as advanced by Nadia Seremetakis. Studies of in…
Paul Simon's Graceland, South Africa, and the Mediation of Musical Meaning
The presence of style indicates strong community, an intense sociability that has been given shape through time, an assertion of control over collective feelings so powerful that any expressive innovator will necessarily put his or her content into that shaping continuum and no other. (Keil 1985:122)
Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio
Paul Simon's Graceland, South Africa, and the Mediation of Musical Meaning
The presence of style indicates strong community, an intense sociability that has been given shape through time, an assertion of control over collective feelings so powerful that any expressive innovator will necessarily put his or her content into that shaping continuum and no other. (Keil 1985:122)
In the Time of Cannibals
Masekela, Hugh
Sound of Africa
Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio
The Reorganization of the Sensory World
Although anthropological and critical social theory have a long interest in sensory experience, work on the senses has intensified within the past 20 years. This article traces three sensory genealogies within anthropology: the work of Ong and McLuhan as critiqued and advanced by David Howes and the Concordia Project; phenomenological studies as advanced by Paul Stoller; and a focus on materialities as advanced by Nadia Seremetakis. Studies of in…
Soundscapes
A generation of scholars in multiple disciplines has investigated sound in ways that are productive for anthropologists. We introduce the concept of soundscape as a modality for integrating this work into an anthropological approach. We trace its history as a response to the technological mediations and listening practices emergent in modernity and note its absence in the anthropological literature. We then trace the history of technology that ga…
The Recording Studio As Fetish
I&s;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;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…
Pooley, Thomas M
Art (5 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Acoustics (3 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)