"This intimate history presents a blow-by-blow 'biography' of Eoan and allows for the bringing to light of an impressive and exhaustive collection of never-seen-before archival material."--James Davies, Associate Professor of Music Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley

"This is an exciting and important project that helps uncover the larger picture of the arts in South Africa from a wide swath of the twentieth century. From 1933, with the colonial British occupation, through the rise of the National Party and the creation of apartheid, this study focuses on the history of one of the premier cultural agencies in South Africa, the Eoan Group."--Naomi André, Associate Professor of Arts and Ideas in the Humanities Program, University of Michigan

Hilde Roos is the General Manager of Africa Open Institute for Music, Research, and Innovation at Stellenbosch University. Her research interests concern the archive, historical representations of the practice of Western art music and the concomitant (colonial) mutations thereof in South Africa.