Programme Director for New Archival Visions, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape
Valmont Layne is the programme director for New Archival Visions and co-convenor of the graduate Sound Study Group at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape. He has written about museums, archives, heritage studies, sound and media studies, as well as jazz and black music history. He is working on a monograph based on his doctoral thesis titled ‘Goema’s refrain: Sonic anticipation and the musicking Cape’.
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