Princeton Prof. Kofi Agawu Leads 'Fourth International Symposium on the Music of Africa' March 2-3

[Kofi Agawu (Denise Applewhite)]

Michelle Horgan of Princeton University sends a conference announcement.  One of the participants is Prof. Bode Omojola, whose scholarly book The Music of Fela Sowande: Encounters, African Identity and Creative Ethnomusicology, was published in 2009 by MRI Press and is an authoritative source for the Fela Sowande (1905-1987) page at AfriClassical.com:

“The Department of Music at Princeton University will host the Fourth International Symposium on the Music of Africa on Friday and Saturday March 2nd - 3rd 2012 in Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall. 

“Directed by Kofi Agawu, the two-day event features workshops and concerts of Yoruba drumming (led by Yoruba Master Talking Drummer Bisi Adeleke) and Ewe drumming (led by Gideon Alorwoyie, Master Drummer and High Priest of the Yewe Cult), a keynote address by Professor Karin Barber, Birmingham University, UK, and lectures on the structure and meaning of a variety of African repertories by scholars George Dor, Kofi Gbolonyo, Bode Omojola, Godfried Toussaint and Polo Vallejo.

“Events are free and open to the public. To register, send an email to Michelle Horgan <horgan@princeton.edu> of Conference and Event Services, Princeton University (tel. 609-258-6116).”

Kofi Agawu

Professor of Music

Princeton.edu

“A native of Ghana, Agawu earned a bachelor's degree in music from Reading University in the United Kingdom in 1977, a master's degree in musical analysis from King's College London in 1978, and a Ph.D. in historical musicology from Stanford University in 1982. He is also certified by the Royal Academy of Music in the teaching of singing and by the Royal College of Music in musicianship and theory.

“Agawu has taught at Princeton since 1998, having taught earlier at Yale University, Cornell University, King's College London, Duke University, and Haverford College. His honors include the prestigious Dent Medal in 1992, awarded by the Royal Musical Association and International Musicological Society for 'outstanding contribution to musicology.'"