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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 2020Keywords
- 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 2017 2019
Inhabiting Whiteness: The Eoan Group La Traviata, 1956
Pistorius, J., 27 Feb 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Cambridge Opera Journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Whiteness
Italy
Colonies
Civility
Aesthetics
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
Book review: William Kentridge and Philip Miller, The Head and the Load
Pistorius, J., 30 Oct 2018, (Accepted/In press) In : SAMUS: South African Music Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review
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
Agenda Setting
South Africa
Colonies
Witnessing
Exclusion
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
Clarity
Ideal
Accusations
Grouping
History of Concepts
Activities 2016 2019
Transnational Opera Studies Conference
Mia Pistorius (Participant)29 Jun 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
Sounding ‘out of place’: towards a politics of coloured operatic vocality
Mia Pistorius (Speaker)11 Apr 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Rupture, Remembrance, and Reform: Operatic Decoloniality in The Head and the Load
Mia Pistorius (Speaker)23 Feb 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
The Total Work of War: William Kentridge’s The Head and the Load as Post-Operatic Gesamtkunstwerk
Mia Pistorius (Speaker)18 Oct 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
South African Society for Research in Music (External organisation)
Mia Pistorius (Treasurer)2018 → 2021
Activity: Membership types › Membership of a Society or Institute