Gavin Steingo
Gavin Steingo (born 1981) is a South African musicologist, activist, and musician.[1] He is the author of Kwaito’s Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Steingo has published widely on South African music, music and value, sound and race, and the politics of world music circulation. He is co-editor, with Jairo Moreno, of the book series Critical Conjunctures in Music and Sound at Oxford University Press. Steingo is an Assistant Professor of Music at Princeton University.[2][3][4][5]
List of Publications[edit]
“Drawing as a More-Than-One.” Schloss-Post. October 21, 2016.
Kwaito’s Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2016.
“Econophonia.” boundary 2, issue edited by Gavin Steingo. Vol. 43, issue 1. 2008.
“Kwaito.” Special issue guest editor of The World of Music 50(2). 2008.
“Robert Ashley and the Tourettic Voice.” Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal 4(1): 30-33.
Awards and Grants[edit]
Research Fellow (Social Sciences), Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart), 2016[6]
Alzheimer’s Association, “Influence of African Dance on Neurocognitive Function” ($250,000); Co-Investigator (PI: Kirk Erikson), 2014-2017[7]
Jaap Kunst Prize, honorable mention, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2016[8]
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Music, Columbia University, 2010-2012[9]
Critical Reception[edit]
Ethnomusicologist Louise Meintijes of Duke University describes Kwaito Promise as: “A work that will make music ethnography legible to scholars engaged with critical theory. Steingo produces a story that makes kwaito sensible to those unfamiliar with it and that brings kwaito fans into print without reducing their struggle nor demanding that they represent resistance. The result is an exceptional analysis of freedom in music.”[10]
The Boston University Music Library describes Kwaito's Promise: "Centered around the rise of kwaito music - a form of electronic music - after Apartheid, Steingo explores an often misunderstood and maligned genre and it's ambiguous relationship with society and politics in South Africa. Enjoy a book the music grad students call "an instant classic"!"[11]
Creative Projects[edit]
Steingo curated "Performative Dialogue," an event concerning afro-futurism featuring the artist Kapwani Kiwanga.[12] He is a frequent contributor to Afropop Worldwide and has also written for Doggerel.[13][14][15] When asked if his practice is political, Steingo replied: "The various possible answers to the question seem scripted in advance – like we are arriving at this question too late."[16]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Gavin Steingo | Akademie Schloss Solitude: Schlosspost". Akademie Schloss Solitude: Schlosspost. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
- ↑ "Board approves 16 faculty appointments". Princeton University. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
- ↑ University, Princeton. "Display Person - The Department of Music at Princeton University - Display Person". www.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
- ↑ "Gavin Steingo". Akademie Schloss Solitude. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
- ↑ "Gavin Steingo| Princeton Department of Music". music.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
- ↑ "Gavin Steingo | Akademie Schloss Solitude: Schlosspost". Akademie Schloss Solitude: Schlosspost. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
- ↑ "Gavin Steingo| Princeton Department of Music". music.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
- ↑ "Jaap Kunst Prize - Society for Ethnomusicology". www.ethnomusicology.org. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
- ↑ "People | Gavin Steingo | The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University". heymancenter.org. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
- ↑ Kwaito's Promise. Search this book on
- ↑ "Boston University Music Library". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
- ↑ "Performative Dialog »The Social Life of the Universe«". Akademie Schloss Solitude. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
- ↑ "Gavin Steingo on South African house". Afropop Worldwide. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
- ↑ "Midwest Electric: The Story of Chicago House and Detroit Techno". Hip Deep • Afropop Worldwide. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
- ↑ "Doggerel". Doggerel. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
- ↑ "»Would You Say That Your (Artistic) Practice is Political?« | Akademie Schloss Solitude: Schlosspost". Akademie Schloss Solitude: Schlosspost. 2016-10-12. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
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