Sylvia Bruinders

Dr Sylvia Bruinders is senior lecturer and 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, Urbana-Champaign. In 2012, she received the
African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by the
Carnegie Corporation of New York to write a monograph based on her
doctoral research from which she has already published several articles
and book chapters. She enjoys Pilates, swimming and leisurely walks.