Sound of Africa

"What fun it was reading Louise Meintjes's" Sound of Africa!" It's an amazing work, almost magical at moments. I know of no other account in print of life in a sound studio. That Meintjes also takes on contemporary South Africa, questions of ethnic and national identity, and world culture and provides an entree into current ethnomusicological thinking is all the more remarkable."--John F. Szwed, author of" Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra"

Louise Meintjes is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Duke University.