In this episode of Talk Media to Me, PhD council member Merit Zimmermann (EUR) talks to dr. Barbara Titus (UvA) about her research into maskanda music in South Africa, focusing on questions of reflexivity, positionality, and colonial legacies in academic knowledge production. The conversation also explores Barbara’s curatorial work with the Jaap Kunst Sound Collection, specifically decolonial approaches to digital restitution.

To read more about Barbara’s travels in South Africa (in Dutch): https://barbaraindurban.blogspot.com/

To read more about Barbara’s travels in Indonesia (in Dutch): https://barbarainyogya.blogspot.com/

To visit Barbara’s personal website: https://barbaratitus.nl/

To visit Barbara’s professional profile at the University of Amsterdam: https://www.uva.nl/profiel/t/i/b.titus/b.titus.html#Profile

* To order Barbara’s book Hearing Maskanda: Musical Epistemologies in South Africa (Bloomsbury 2022):  https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hearing-maskanda-9781501377808/
* For online access to the sound recordings of the Jaap Kunst Collection at the University of Amsterdam: https://jaapkunst.org/