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Apartheid (literally “apart-hood” in Afrikaans)

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Dr. Sarah J. Bartolome is an Assistant Professor of Music Education at Northwestern University. A children’s music and choral specialist with an interest in world music for the classroom, she has completed music fieldwork in Ghana, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Panama and Lithuania. Her scholarship in music education has been published in such journals as the Journal of Research in Music Education, the Journal of Music Teacher Education, and the Music Educators Journal.

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