Veit Erlmann

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Veit Erlmann ()[1] is a German born ethnomusicologist.

Biography

Born in Germany, he studied musicology, sociology, anthropology and philosophy in Berlin and Cologne, where he obtained a Dr.phil. in 1978 and did a Habilitation in musicology in 1989 and in anthropology in 1994. He has done fieldwork in Ecuador and in several African countries including Cameroon, Niger, Ghana, South Africa, Lesotho and West Sumatra, Indonesia.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Besides stints at the University of Chicago the Free University of Berlin and the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin, Erlmann was at one time on the faculties of the University of Natal, the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, a period which inspired the research for his two books African Stars, Studies in Black South African Performance and Nightsong (1991), and Performance, Power and Practice in South Africa, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Sources

https://music.utexas.edu/about/people/erlmann-veit

http://www.veiterlmann.net/

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