Fellowships at the National Humanities Center

FAIN: RA-20199-98

National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-0152)
W. Robert Connor (Project Director: September 1997 to January 2003)

To support fellowships in the humanities.

Associated Products

Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz (Book)
Title: Musical Echoes: South African Women Thinking in Jazz
Author: Sathima Bea Benjamin
Author: Carol Ann Muller
Abstract: This is a biography of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin. Born in Cape Town in the 1930s, Benjamin came to know American jazz and popular music through the radio, movies, records, and live stage and dance band performances. In 1962 she and Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) left South Africa together for Europe, where they met and recorded with Duke Ellington. Benjamin and Ibrahim spent their lives on the move between Europe, the United States, and South Africa until 1977, when they left Africa for New York City and declared their support for the African National Congress. In New York, Benjamin established her own record company and recorded her music independently from Ibrahim. This book reflects twenty years of archival research and conversation. The narrative of Benjamin’s life and times is interspersed with Muller’s reflections on the vocalist’s story and its implications for jazz history.
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=17587
Primary URL Description: Publisher's website
Secondary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/musical-echoes-south-african-women-thinking-in-jazz/oclc/700406656&referer=brief_results
Secondary URL Description: WorldCat
Publisher: Duke University Press
Type: Multi-author monograph
ISBN: 9780822349143
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Prizes

2012 Alan Merriam Prize - Honorable Mention
Date: 12/20/2012
Organization: The Society for Ethnomusicology
Abstract: To recognize the most distinguished, published English-language monograph in the field of ethnomusicology.

Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination (Book)
Title: Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination
Author: Gaurav Desai
Abstract: Reading the life narratives and literary texts of South Asians writing in East Africa, Gaurav Desai builds a new history of Africa's encounter with slavery, colonialism, migration, nationalism, development, and globalization. Rather than approach literature and culture from a nation-centered perspective, Desai connects the medieval trade routes of the Islamicate empire, the early independence movements galvanized in part by Gandhi's southern African experiences, the invention of new ethnic nationalisms, and the rise of plural, multiethnic nations to the fertile exchange taking place across the Indian Ocean.
Year: 2013
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/commerce-with-the-universe-africa-india-and-the-afrasian-imagination/oclc/861292032&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978023153559
Copy sent to NEH?: No

Prizes

René Wellek Prize
Date: 3/26/2015
Organization: American Comparative Literature Association
Abstract: The René Wellek Prize recognizes an outstanding book in the discipline of comparative literature; fields may include literary or cultural theory or history, or any other field of comparative literature.

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