opondop@ukzn.ac.za
Details
- Position Senior Lecturer;
- Discipline Music;
- CampusHoward College Campus
- Office AddressFrancis Stock Building, 2nd Floor, Room 009
Degrees Held
- BS Music Education (Duquesne University)
- MA (University of Pittsburgh)
- PhD (University of Pittsburgh)
Research Interests
- African Music and Dance
- Applied Ethnomusicology
- Community Music Making
- Cultural Policy
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems
- Digital Ethnomusicology
- Women and Music
Teaching Interests
- African Music and Dance
- Applied Ethnomusicology
- Festival Curation
- Cultural Policy
- Arts Administration
Selected
Publications and Creative Output
Books
- Studies in African Musical Heritage (Co-Editor with Elina Seye). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Forthcoming 2018).
- Culture, Memory and Trauma (Editor) – Proceedings of the 3rd Annual National Oral History Conference. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2013
Chapters in Books
- “African Music in Global Diasporic Discourse: Identity Explorations of South African Artist Johnny Mbizo Dyani” in Music and Identity: Transformation and Negotiation edited by Eric Akrofi, Maria Smit and Stig-Magnus Thorsen, pp. 257 – 276. Stellenbosch: Sun Media, 2008.
- “Strategies for Survival by Luo Female Artists in the Rural Environment in Kenya” in Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas edited by B.A Moss, C. Higgs and E. R. Ferguson, pp. 205 – 226. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2002.
Journal Articles
- “Song-Gesture-Dance: Redefined Aesthetics in the Performance Continuum as South African Women’s Groups Explore New Frontiers” – Critical Arts: A Journal of South North Cultural and Media Studies (2006): 61 – 74.
- “The Nexus between Song and Speech in Dodo Performance” – Voices: Journal of Oral Studies (2000): 202 – 228.
- “Cultural Policies in Kenya” – Arts Education Policy Review – Symposium on Arts Education in Africa (2000), 101, no. 5: 18 – 24.
Community Involvement
- African Music Project
- African Cultural Calabash Festival
- International Council for Traditional Music Study Group on African Musics
Teaching Expertise
- Applied Ethnomusicology
- African Music and Dance
- African Music and Dance Education
- Community Music Festival Curation
- Arts Administration
- Ethnographic and Video Documentation of Ritual and Performance
- Public Sector Ethnomusicology
Student Supervision
- Eric Sunu Doe (PhD)
- Caleb Mauwa (PhD)
- Nhlakanipho Ngcobo (MA)
- Jose Alberto Chemane (MA)
- Zamahlobo Ntombela (MA)
- Nomfundo Zuma (BA Hons)
- Lihle James (BA Hons)