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Collected Scatterings : a digital anthology in the making (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Loubser, J. (2018, April). Collected Scatterings : a digital anthology in the making. Presented at British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University

Over the past year I, along with my technologically minded colleagues, created an industry collaboration project entitled Collected Scatterings. The premise is a simple one: to provide good quality recordings and ethnographic films for local musician... Read More about Collected Scatterings : a digital anthology in the making.

Book review: Christopher Ballantine. 2012. Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa, 2nd edn. Scottsville: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 280pp. ISBN 978-1869142377 (pbk) (2017)
Journal Article
Loubser, J. (2017). Book review: Christopher Ballantine. 2012. Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa, 2nd edn. Scottsville: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 280pp. ISBN 978-1869142377 (pbk). Journal of World Popular Music, 3(2), 289-295. https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.v3i2.28305

When the first edition of Christopher Ballantine’s Marabi Nights appeared in 1993, I was delighted. As a young musician at the time, this book, along with David Coplan’s In Township Tonight! South Africa’s Black City Music and Theatre (1985) and Veit... Read More about Book review: Christopher Ballantine. 2012. Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa, 2nd edn. Scottsville: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 280pp. ISBN 978-1869142377 (pbk).

Collected Scatterings: Living Ethnographies - Music, Movement and Identity (2017)
Other
Loubser, J. (2017). Collected Scatterings: Living Ethnographies - Music, Movement and Identity

Collected Scatterings is a practice-based project and website that started as a research paper which examined the repositioned ideas as presented in capoeira, the Brazilian martial art, in its globalized form. In the noted paper I examined the way we... Read More about Collected Scatterings: Living Ethnographies - Music, Movement and Identity.