Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research Expertise and Interests
Juliana M. Pistorius received a DPhil in Musicology from the University of Oxford in 2018. Her research investigates opera, migration, and the politics of coloniality and decoloniality in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. As the managing editor of SAMUS: South African Music Studies, she takes an interest in matters of access and linguistic diversification.
External positions
Research Fellow, Africa Open Institute
1 Dec 2018 → 30 Nov 2020Research Expertise and Interests
- Opera
- South Africa
- Coloniality
- Decoloniality
- Race
- Apartheid
- Political Resistance
- Migration
- Democracy
- Voice
- African Modernism
- Music and the State
- Archive Theory
- Indigenisation and Adaptation
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Research Output
Inhabiting Whiteness: The Eoan Group La Traviata, 1956
Pistorius, J. M., 1 Mar 2019, In : Cambridge Opera Journal. 31, 1, p. 63-84 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Predicaments of Coloniality, or, Opera Studies Goes Ethno
Pistorius, J., 23 Aug 2019, In : Music and Letters. p. 1-11 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Decolonising musicology: A Response and Three Positions
Venter, C., Fourie, W., Pistorius, J. & Muyanga, N., 1 Jan 2018, In : SAMUS: South African Music Studies. 36/37, 1, p. 129-156 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Eoan, Assimilation, and the Charge of 'Coloured Culture'
Pistorius, J., 1 Jan 2018, In : SAMUS: South African Music Studies. 36/37, 1, p. 389-415 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Review: The Head and the Load, dir. William Kentridge, composed by Philip Miller and Thuthuka Sibisi, choreography by Gregory Maqoma. Tate Modern, London, 11-15 July 2018
Pistorius, J., 30 Oct 2018, In : SAMUS: South African Music Studies. 38, 1, p. 82-89 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review
Activities
Themed Session: 'Music and the Third Wave of Democratisation in Southern Europe and the Global South'
Igor Contreras-Zubillaga (Speaker), Robert Adlington (Speaker), Mia Pistorius (Speaker), Daniel Party (Speaker) & Anna Papaeti (Speaker)
10 Sep 2020
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
The Total Work of War: William Kentridge’s The Head and the Load as Post-Colonial Gesamtkunstwerk
Mia Pistorius (Speaker)
14 Feb 2020
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa (Journal)
Mia Pistorius (Reviewer)
2020 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication Peer-review
"A Long Way from Home”: Opera, Performance and Cultural Boycott in Apartheid South Africa
Mia Pistorius (Speaker)
3 Nov 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
'The Troubles of the Neck': Tracing the Postcolonial Avant-Garde in William Kentridge’s The Head & the Load
Mia Pistorius (Speaker)
22 Oct 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk