Peter van der Merwe is a self-taught
musicologist,[1] author, and librarian. He was born in
Cape Town, South Africa, and has written several books on the history of modern popular and classical music. He studied at the College of Music at the
University of Cape Town. He also works as a cataloguer at the municipal library in
Pietermaritzburg.[2]
Bibliography
(1989). Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
ISBN0-19-316121-4.[3][4][5]
(2005) Roots of the Classical: the Popular Origins of Western Music.
ISBN0-19-816647-8[1][6]
^Formally known as the Natal Society Library, which on April 2004 was integrated into the Msunduzi Municipality and became the Msunduzi Municipal Library. see the officially published information as to
Msunduzi Municipal Library Services