Carol Muller

Carol Muller is a Professor of Music (ethnomusicology), who has published widely on South African music, both at home and in exile.  Her intellectual interests include the relationship between music, gender and religious studies, migration and diaspora studies, and critical ethnography.  Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz (Duke Fall 2011) with Sathima Bea Benjamin; Shembe Hymns (Univ. of KwaZulu Natal 2010);  Focus: South African Music (Routledge 2008); Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire: Nazarite Women’s Performance in South Africa (Chicago 1999) are some of the books she has authored and edited.