Van Der Merwe, Peter

Peter Van der Merwe was born in Cape Town of Boer and Irish stock. He has studied at the College of Music in his native city but is virtually self-taught as musician and musicologist. He divides his time between the study of music and work as a cataloguer at the municipal library in
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. His first book, Origins of the Popular Style, was published by OUP in 1989.