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	I have published seven monographs, three edited collections, some 30 articles, and four LPs/CDs. Below are links to some of these publications. For all full list of publications click here.
	books
	Die Macht des Wortes. Preisgesang und Berufsmusiker bei den Fulbe des Diamaré (Nordkamerun). Munich: Renner, 1978 download the book (vol.1) (vol.2) African Stars. Studies in Black South African Performance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991 more... Nightsong. Performance, Power and Practice in South Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996 more... Music, Modernity and the Global Imagination. South Africa and the West. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999 more... (ed.) Hearing Cultures. Essays on Sound, Listening, and Modernity. New York: Berg Publishers, 2004 more...
	articles (selection)
	The Past is Far and the Future is Far: Power and Performance among Zulu Migrant Workers, American Ethnologist 19/4, 1992 download the article... Resisting Sameness – A propos Kofi Agawu’s “Representing African Music,” Music Theory Spectrum 26/2, 2004 download the article... „Africa Civilized, Africa Uncivilized“ - Local Culture, World System and South African Music, Journal of Southern African Studies 22/2, 1994 download the article...
	recordings
	Music of the Cameroon. The Fulani of the North. Lyrichord LLST 7334 (out of print) Listen to a track (Mallum Gazawa: Kulee le cekee) Mbube Roots. Zulu Choral Music from South Africa, 1930s-1960s. Rounder CD 5025 Listen to a track (Durban Crocodiles: Akasangibhaleli) Zulu Worker Choirs. Heritage HT CD 43 Listen to a track (Durban High Stars: Lapha eSandlwana)
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I have published seven monographs, three edited collections, some 30 articles, and four LPs/CDs. Below are links to some of these publications. For all full list of publications click here.