Associate Professor Sylvia Bruinders is Head of Ethnomusicology and African Music at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town, where she teaches courses in Ethnomusicology, African, and World musics. A former Fulbright scholar, her dissertation on the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape received the Nicholas Temperley Award for Excellence in a Dissertation in Musicology at the University of Illinois. Her monograph, Parading Respectability: The Cultural and Moral Aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa (NISC 2017) was supported through a Postdoctoral Fellowship of the African Humanities Program, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. She is currently the Director of the multi-institutional Pan-African Mellon-funded research project, Mapping Africa’s Musical Identities, which includes six universities on the African continent.
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