Research and Writings
PUBLICATIONS and EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Present Writing Projects:
1) "TO A CERTAIN DEGREE: THE ART OF GRADUATING”:
A book for college
students on approaches to learning, and strategies for success.
2) "THINGS COME TOGETHER: The Music Indaba of
Late-Apartheid South Africa".
Manuscript on music as communicator and educator in South Africa.
2005- ‘DECOMPOSING
APARTHEID: How Things Came Together.’
Keynote Address at International Conference
‘Composing Apartheid’ South Africa).
In
Publication as concluding chapter of edited book from the conference. (ed.
Grant Olwage) Univ. of the Witwatersrand Press.
2003- ‘MUSIC
IS THE WEAPON OF THE FUTURE: Fifty Years of African Popular Music’ (Review of Book by Frank Tenaille).
In Notes Volume 60,
Number 2, December 2003
2001- ‘SO LONG DOLLY: The Biography of Dolly Rathebe’ A recorded biography (on video and audio) of the life of the South African township music legend. Project funded by a Duke-Semans Fellowship. (Written Biography to follow).
2000- ‘THE
LIFE AND WORKS OF ERNESTINE FRIEDL”
A recorded biography (on video and audio) of the life history of anthropologist Ernestine Friedl,
Project funded by the Wenner-Gren Society for Anthropological Research for their Archives.
1998: “MIRROR, MEDIATOR AND PROPHET:
The Music Indaba of
late-Apartheid South Africa”
“Ethnomusicology” (Winter)1998 Vol 42 no. 1-44. Winner of the 1996 Charles Seeger Prize.
1996: "So You Want To Graduate?… Ingrid's
Rumination."
Department of Cultural Anthropology Newsletter, Volume 3, Number 4. pp. 2-5. Duke University.
1996: “THE
MUSIC INDABA: Music as Mirror, Mediator and Prophet
in
the South African Transition from
Apartheid to Democracy.”
Ph.D. Dissertation. Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
Abstract in ‘Dissertation Abstracts International’, Volume 57, Number 5, 1996
Dissertation available through UMI Dissertation Services UMI Number: 9628771
1994 “POLYPHONIC VOICES IN A COMPLEX SOCIETY:
Reviewing History and Identity in
South Africa”.
Master's Thesis, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
1993: "Education and Emancipation Through Music” Fieldwork Report.: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES,
Volume
6, no 1. Dec. Fall 1993, Center for
International Studies, Duke University.
VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES
1987-88 “WHEN NATIONS MEET”
A Documentary on South African and International Student Integration at a National and International Level. 52 Minutes.
PAL Format Winner of "National
Panasonic Videomaker's Award": Individual Winner. London, England.
June 1989.
1988-9 ‘‘DOES EVERY COUNTRY?” A Video Letter Poem: Composed between South African students
(Johannesburg) and International students (Oxford). 19 minutes. PAL Format.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS and CONFERENCES:
July 2004 ‘DECOMPOSING APARTHEID: How Things Came
Together”
KEYNOTE ADDRESS at International Conference
‘Composing Apartheid’.
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
May 2002: Invited
Speaker: ‘Musical forms in the
Transition of Ideology and Power’
In seminar ‘Culture, Art and Knowledge’
(Prof. Alexei Yurchak)
University
of California, Berkeley.
October 1999: Television Guest Appearance on WUNC Television "Talkback Live", on research for
"The Art of Scholarship and
the Craft of Graduating: Getting Away with Fervor". 20 October 1999
October 1999: Invited Chair. Session: Music: Community and Global Africa, In Conference
"Leadership & Community: Icons from the Past, Models for the Present" October 7-9 1999,
Department of African and African-American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
April 1998: Panel
Chair. Session: Traditional Ethnomusicological
Models
MACSEM ’98, Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Society for Ethnomusicology
The College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, VA
April 1997: “Alternative Rock in the Late-Apartheid Transition to Democracy.”
Paper presented at the conference ‘Re-presenting Rock”.
4-6th April 1997. Duke University .
February 1997: "Successful Mentoring Relationships" Panel Member
Graduate and Professional Women's Network
Duke Women's Center, Duke University.
September 1996 "The
Mission of Music in Late-Apartheid South Africa"
1996-1997
Cultural Anthropology Colloquia, Duke
University
October1995 “THE MUSIC INDABA: Musical
Collaboration as Mediator and Prophet
in the South African Transition
from Apartheid to Democracy' -
Paper for Presentation at the Society for Ethnomusicology, Los Angeles, October 1995.
May 1995 “Educating Through Underground Music:
The Late-Apartheid and Late-Soviet Eras: A Comparative Study.”
Lectures and Presentations in Russia for 'Kabinet, The Russian Journal of Arts and Sciences’
Sessions delivered in collaboration with Dr. Alexei Yurchak at the Borey Art Gallery,
Pushkinskaia Art Clinic (St. Petersburg) and Russian State Humanitarian University (Moscow)
May 1995: "Educating the Youth of Totalitarian States Through Music":
Radio Interview on Radio Baltica.St. Petersburg, Russia.
In collaboration with Dr. Alexei Yurchak.
PROFESSIONAL LECTURING IN SOUTH AFRICA - BUSINESS SECTOR
DEVELOPMENT AND PRESENTATION OF BASIC AND ADVANCED INSTRUCTORS'
COURSES:
Education and Training Department, Standard Bank of South Africa, 1986-1990.
Teaching workshops and promotions-based examinations for training managers held in training centers in
Pretoria, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Durban Port Elizabeth, East London and Thaba 'Nchu.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND PRESENTATION OF BUSINESS EMPLOYEE TRAINING
Education and Training Department, Standard Bank of South Africa,
1986-1990.
Management and Education Courses: