Associate Professor Sylvia Bruinders is 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. Her monograph, Parading Respectability: The Cultural and Moral Aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape, South Africa was supported through a Postdoctoral Fellowship of the African Humanities Program, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York through the American Council of Learned Societies, and published by NISC in 2017. She is currently the Director of the Mellon-funded multi-institutional Pan-African research project, Mapping Africa’s Musical Identities, which includes six universities on the African continent.