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Monday, November 14, 2005

Blogs - How Weblogs Influence A Billion Google Searches A Week

Google Blogs - How Weblogs Influence A Billion Google Searches A Week - Microcontent News, a Corante.com Microblog An explanation of the impact of linking on page ratings and search engines.
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Publications

  • “Vuvuzelas, Pop Stars and Back-up Dancers: The Politics of Rhythm and Noise at the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa” in SAMus: The Journal of the South African Society for Research in Music 32: 1 2012: pp. 37-58.
  • "The disharmonious honking of the vuvuzelas: homogenization and difference in the production and promotion of the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa" in Soccer and Society Vol. 12: 1, Special Issue: Football, Sounds and Things.2011: pp. 46-55
  • "The Gendered Sound of South Africa: Karen Zoid and the Performance of Nationalism in the New South Africa" in Yearbook for Traditional Music Vol. 42 2010: pp. 1-20
  • "Singing the Nation: Negotiating South African Identity Through Choral Music" in Music and Identity: Transformation and Negotiation, by Eric Ayisi Akrofi, Maria Smit, Stig-Magnus Thorsén (eds). 2007: pp. 21-35
  • "Singing South Africanness: The Construction of Identity Among South African Youth Choirs" in Journal of Musical Arts in Africa Vol. 1 2004: pp. 103-115

Resources

  • 3rd Ear Music
  • African Studies Association
  • amatomu
  • BBC radio (my favourite is radio 7)
  • The Choral Public Domain Library
  • Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Online
  • IASPM popular music studies database
  • The Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa
  • The Mail and Guardian
  • Afrikaans music mp3s at MK
  • Muziki journal of South African Music
  • News24
  • Oxford English Dictionary Online
  • SAMus journal of South African Musicology
  • Society for Ethnomusicology
  • South African Congress of Musicology
  • South African Music Project (SAMP)
  • South African Rock Encyclopedia
  • !tzalist Arts Directory

Posts I update regularly

  • Soccer World Cup 2010
  • De La Rey in the blog-o-sphere
  • South African Music in New York
  • South African Name Changes
  • White Africans
  • A Brittle Democracy: Whose Culture Is South African

General Links

  • My Pictures
  • My Parent's Site, Window Box Herbs
  • New York University
  • NYU Canterbury Club
  • NYU Music Department
  • PhD Weblogs
  • The Swedish South African Research Network.
  • University of the Witwatersrand
  • Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER)
  • Wits office of Alumni Affairs
  • Wits School of Arts

South African music blogs

  • Andra
  • Anthony the Monster
  • Arno Carstens
  • The Arrows
  • The Bang
  • Chris Chameleon
  • Driverlane
  • Fokofpolisiekar
  • Freshly Ground
  • Isolation
  • Just Jinjer
  • Kathy Tagg
  • Karen Zoid
  • Karma
  • Klopjag
  • The Official Kwaito Connection
  • Oppikoppi
  • the Parlotones
  • Wonderboom

Academic's Blogs

  • Pennies in a Jar
  • The Little Professor
  • One Bright Star (B*) Reignited
  • See Jane in the Academy
  • What the hell is wrong with you

South African blogs

  • Aquila Online
  • Eugene Eckard's Blog
  • Mhambi
  • The Muso
  • South Africa Holiday Paradise
  • Triomf
  • White African
  • Woza Friday

Music Academic's Blogs

  • 2'23"
  • Beyond Academia
  • Dial "M" for Musicology
  • Inhabiting Grammars, Dissonantly...."
  • Jenny Olivia Johnson
  • La guayabita
  • Music 000001
  • Musicology/Matters
  • Rodas Em Todo O Mundo
  • Skydiving Ethnomusicologist
  • sociosound
  • SocioSound
  • The Book I'm Not Reading
  • Wayne&Wax

Music Blogs

  • Another Name for Hobby Horse
  • Bits and Bytes from Elsewhere
  • Catalysts and Connections
  • luis in paris
  • Metal Jew
  • Musical Perceptions
  • Nahenahe.net
  • People Listen To It
  • Pop Musicology
  • Popular Musings
  • (post) soviet popular music
  • The Rest is Noise
  • Shante Paradigm Presents
  • Soundslope
  • Stonewall Chorale

Performers, composers and music scholars without blogs

  • Faerwear
  • 24.com SA music downloads
  • Bok van Blerk
  • Drakensberg Boys' Choir School
  • Emo Adams
  • Freshly Ground
  • Ingrid Byerly
  • Jenny Olivia Johnson, Composer
  • Jeremy Taylor
  • Karen Zoid
  • Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  • Lebo M
  • Lucia Pulido
  • Soweto Gospel Choir
  • Wits Choir

Other Blogs I Read

  • From the Shepherd's Pen
  • From Away
  • Global Voices Online
  • Joey in Astoria
  • Mexico Cooks!
  • New York Nitty Gritty
  • ORIENTALiSH
  • Vermont Grand View Farm (My yarn CSA)

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choirgirl
I am a PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology at New York University (NYU).I obtained my Bachelor of Music degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2005, and was music director of the Johannesburg Chamber choir until mid 2006. I have sung with the National Youth Choir of South Africa, and the West Gauteng Youth Choir, among others in South Africa, and I currently sing with the Canterbury Downtown choir in New York. In addition to singing and conducting choirs, I play piano, organ, various recorders, penny whistle, mbira and uhadi, and once upon a time played bassoon.
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