Veit Erlmann studied musicology, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy in Berlin and Cologne, obtaining a Ph.D. in 1978. He has since done fieldwork in several African countries, and has taught at the University of Natal, the University of Chicago, the University of Witwatersrand, and the Free University of Berlin. He is currently Professor and Endowed Chair in the School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin.
"[The book] offers important and thoroughly detailed discussions of
the movements of musics, peoples and ideologies...[It] merit[s] the
seious attention of the general ethnomusicological reader."--2000
Yearbook for Traditional Music
"This is a rich, multidisciplinary work is destined to interest a
broad range of scholars... A reliable survey as well as a
significant contribution to the literature on trans-nationalism,
modernization and globalization. In addition, this book's
perspectives speak to the current academic discussion in South
Africa on biography and autobiography as genres mediating national
narratives of political transition." African Studies Quaterly
"An important contribution to current thinking about the place of
music in cultural work, the nature of the relationship between the
West and South Africa, and the prospects for making histories of
Africa that look beyond Europe's long-standing and self-serving
frames. Anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, historians, cultural
theorists, and Africanists will find much of value in this
work."--World of Music
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