CURRENT RESEARCH/WRITINGS


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Encyclopedia/Dictionary Essays

 

*“W.C. Handy.” Dictionary of African American Biographies Scholastic, Brown Reference Group (2006)

*“MC Hammer.” Dictionary of African American Biographies Scholastic, Brown Reference Group (2006)

*   Sources And Processes Of Musical Invention In African Independent Churches (In African Folklore: An Encyclopedia, pp. 268-272.  Philip Peek and Kwesi Yankah, eds. New York: Routledge, 2004

*   Music in World Shamanism” (In Encyclopedia of Shamanism-- ABC/CLIO, 2004)
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“African Music Scholarship—A Review Essay” (In   New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. (Scribner’s, 2004)
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 “Musical Traditions of Togo and Benin.” In  Ewe Handbook, Vol 3: Togo and Benin. Ed. Lawrance Benjamin. Accra: Woeli Press, 2004.

 

*"In and Out of Song": A Review of Female Song Tradition and the Akan of Ghana: The Creative Process in Nnwonkoro, by Kwasi Ampene. Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT, USA: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. Review forthcoming in Research in African Literatures

*Guest Editor, The World of Music (2003). Essays by...

*“Stumbling with/over Scripts: Vignettes.” Oral Tradition 18(1):118-120.

*         Editor, MUSIC, RELIGION AND RITUAL IN AFRICA (collection of 12 essays, Mellen Press, Dec 2003).

 “INTEGRATING “INDIGENOUS” PRACTICES IN CHRISTIAN WORSHIP Paper presented at the international symposium, Global Consultation on Music and Missions,  September 15-19, 2003, Forth Worth, TX, September 15-19, 2003. [free CD WITH 40+ pages of text with supportive, video and audio clips available]

 

 “SOUND IN/AND CONTEXT: CRITICAL PATHS TOWARD UNDERSTANDING MUSIC IN EVERYDAY LIFE Paper presented at the International Symposium on the Music of Africa” held at Princeton University, October 10-11, 2003, Princeton, NJ. Also chaired a panel titled, “Theorizing Rhythm.”

 

 

*   Textual Production as Musical Consumption: The Musical Irony of Dramaturgy In Haló Performance

 

 INTERSECTIONS OF THE SACRED AND SECULAR IN AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY WITH EMPHASIS ON MUSIC AND DANCE” NAZARENE UNIVERSITY, MT. VERNON,  OH. FEBRUARY 10, 2004


THE WORK OF THE PERFORMATIVE: CONSTRUCTIONS OF CULTURAL AUTONOMY IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY



LOCATING "THE MIDDLE PASSAGE" BE-TWIN TWO CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMPOSERS (Autumn 2001 Musicology Lecture Series, OSU)

INVESTING THE SUBTERRANEAN DIMENSION IN HALÓ PERFORMANCE {African Studies Association Conference Paper, Nov 2001, Houston, TX)---check here later for sample text

THE TURNER-SCHECHNER MODEL OF PERFORMANCE AS SOCIAL DRAMA: A RE-EXAMINATION IN THE LIGHT OF ANLO-EWE HALÓ[Research in African Literatures 30/4(1999):144-155]

COMPETITION AND CONFLICT AS A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING PERFORMANCE CULTURE AMONG THE URBAN ANLO-EWE [Ethnomusicology 45/2(2001)]

DEE HOO! SONIC ARTICULATIONS IN HEALING AND EXORCISM PRACTICES OF THE ANLO-EWE [World of Music 2 (2000)]

Conference Paper on NETOPIA AND INTERNET HOMELESSNESS

"IT'S A GREAT SONG!" HALÓ PERFORMANCE AS LITERARY PRODUCTION [RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES 3 (2001)