(MENAFN- The Conversation) Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Cape Town Profile Articles Activity
Associate Professor Sylvia Bruinders is Head of Ethnomusicology and African Music at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town where she teaches courses in Ethnomusicology, African and World musics. Her monograph, Parading Respectability: The Cultural and Moral Aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa was supported through a Postdoctoral Fellowship of the African Humanities Program and published by NISC in 2017. She is currently the Director of the Mellon-funded Pan-African research project, Mapping Africa's Musical Identities, which includes six universities on the African continent.
Experience
- 2004–present Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
Education
- 2012 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, PhD
Publications
- 2017 Parading Respectability: The Cultural and Moral Aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa, First Edition
Grants and Contracts
- 2019 Role: Associate Professor of Musicology Funding Source: National Research Foundation
- 2019 Mapping Africa's Musical Identities Role: Principal Investigator Funding Source: Andrew Mellon Foundation
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