We are pleased to announce that Prof. Louise Meintjes, Duke University (Durham, USA) will be the next speaker/ key discussant of our 2021 “Anthropology of Music Lecture Series and Master Class”.

The topic of the event will be heralded on this page within the next couple of weeks; the call for applications will be sent out in early December 2020, with a deadline in February 2021. The entire event will take place end of June 2021 at JGU Mainz, if corona allows us to travel and meet safely; if it won’t, the event will be postponed to June 2022.

More soon; for some information on Louise Meintjes, take a look at her homepage (https://music.duke.edu/people/louise-meintjes) and, better still, read her book Dust of the Zulu. Ngoma Aesthetics After Apartheid (https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2417/Dust-of-the-ZuluNgoma-Aesthetics-after-Apartheid)