Dr. Dina M. Bennett
Pride Publishing Group
May 17, 2018
The National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) has hired
renowned ethnomusicologist Dr. Dina M. Bennett as senior curator.
Bennett has over 30 years’ experience in the music field and specializes
in African American music and culture.
Bennett previously served
as the associate director of the Mulvane Art Museum at Washburn
University in Topeka, Kan., director of education at the B.B. King
Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, Miss., and the
manager of collections and exhibitions at the American Jazz Museum (AJM)
in Kansas City, Mo. During her AJM tenure, she oversaw the museum’s
temporary and permanent collection exhibitions, and also served as the
co-curator and consulting ethnomusicologist for the museum’s John H.
Baker Jazz Film Collection Exhibition (2009), the first addition to the
jazz museum’s permanent exhibition since its opening in 1997.
“It
is an honor that Dr. Bennett has joined our team,” said NMAAM
President/CEO Henry Beecher Hicks III. “Her expertise is unmatched, and
I’m positive that her work with NMAAM will result in an exceptional
experience for our museum guests.”
Originally from Topeka, Kan.,
Bennett earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication studies from
Washburn University, a master’s degree in college student personnel from
Kansas State University, and a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology with a minor in
African American and African Diaspora studies from Indiana University.
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The National
Museum of African American Music, set to open in 2019, will be the only
museum solely dedicated to educating, preserving and celebrating the
influence African Americans have had on music. Based in Nashville,
Tenn., the museum will share the story of the American Soundtrack by
integrating history and interactive technology to bring musical heroes
of the past into the present.
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