Veit Erlmann

  • 8

    Catalog books

  • 5

    Works

  • 1991 to 2020

    Strongest span

Who This Author Is

Veit Erlmann has enough depth here to be more than a raw catalog rollup. This page pulls together 8 catalog-linked books across 1991 to 2020, which makes it easier to separate the strongest starting points from the noisier editions. The clearest lane here leans toward Backlist browsing.

Best for readers who want a dependable place to start before opening the full catalog list. If you want the easiest first click, start with Nightsong: Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa and branch outward from there. UPB note: the strongest documented run here lands between 1991 to 2020; the most common copies on this page tend to come from Univ of Chicago Pr and Oxford Univ Pr on Demand.

Best Place To Start

Author At A Glance

Best known for: Backlist browsing entry points • common used copies from Univ of Chicago Pr and Oxford Univ Pr on Demand

Genres and themes: Backlist browsing

Who this author is best for: readers who want a dependable place to start before opening the full catalog list

UPB note: the strongest documented run here lands between 1991 to 2020; the most common copies on this page tend to come from Univ of Chicago Pr and Oxford Univ Pr on Demand.

Top Books To Start With

  1. Nightsong: Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa

    Univ of Chicago Pr • 1995 • standard commitment

    UPB note: one of the most common used-copy publishers for this author • year signal: 1995 • 296 pages.

  2. Hearing Cultures

    Taylor & Francis Group • 2020 • standard commitment

    UPB note: year signal: 2020 • 250 pages.

  3. Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West

    Oxford Univ Pr on Demand • 1999 • standard commitment

    UPB note: year signal: 1999 • 312 pages.

  4. Reason and Resonance

    Zone Books • 2014 • longer commitment

    UPB note: year signal: 2014 • 424 pages.

  5. Nightsong

    Univ of Chicago Pr • commitment varies by edition

    It stands out partly because the publisher trail is clearer than usual for this author page.

  6. African Stars : Studies in Black South African Performance (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)

    University Of Chicago Press • commitment varies by edition

    readers who want one of the clearer starting points on this page

  7. Populäre Musik in Afrika, m. CD-Audio

    Reimer • 1991 • standard commitment

    This one reads more like a collected shelf sample than a single clean starting point.

How The Picks Compare

  • Hearing Cultures is the easier short commitment, while Nightsong: Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa asks for more reading time up front.
  • Nightsong: Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa gives you an earlier look at this author’s shelf, while Hearing Cultures leans later in the catalog.
  • Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West is also useful if you want a different publishing lane from Nightsong: Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa.

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