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Lindelwa Dalamba

Dr Lindelwa Dalamba teaches music history at the University of the Witwatersrand's School of Arts, Department of Music. She is an historian of jazz, focussing specifically on South African jazz history in the country and in exile during the apartheid years. Her current research projects are on Todd Matshikiza and on South African jazz's Afro-modernisms.

Experience

  • –present
    Music lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand

Education

  •  
    University of the Witwatersrand, PhD

Grants and Contracts

  • 2019
    Arts Research Africa (Wits School of Arts, Mellon)
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
  • 2019
    NEST: Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Mellon - University of the Witwatersrand
  • 2018
    Mellon Staff Development Grant
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Wits Faculty of the Humanities
  • 2017
    National Research Foundation, Thuthuka, grant number 106960
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    National Research Foundation