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Elizabeth Oehrle
Elizabeth Oehrle is Senior Research Fellow at University of KwaZulu – Natal (UKZN). She championed the promotion of intercultural education through music in Southern Africa by organizing the first multiracial conference for all music educators at tertiary institutions in South Africa. In 1991 she started a network for the promotion of intercultural education through music (NETIEM) and initiated The Talking Drum. She founded ‘One of the first and most enduring performing arts outreach programmemes in the country’ (UKZN Development Brief-2006) called UKUSA, an NPO Community Performing Arts Organization now in its 23rd year, and she remains the facilitator. Her concern for the establishment of an African Music Post led her to raise funds for the first such post established at UKZN in the 1990s. She is also a member of the International Education Board of Music Education Research Journal.