Francesca Inglese

Francesca Inglese is an ethnomusicologist and scholar of popular music whose scholarship investigates how African and African diasporic communities deploy sound and embodied practice as vehicles for knowledge production, identity formation, and social transformation. Her forthcoming book, Remixing Race after Apartheid: Kaapse Klopse in South Africa (Wesleyan University Press’ Music/Culture Series) is an ethnography of Kaapse klopse, a South African carnival tradition. Her current book project, Dark Angels, reframes the violin by attending to its integral place in the development of Black American popular music and documents a long genealogy of genre-bending Black violinists.