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RECENT PUBLICATIONS & LECTURES

See/Hear Berlin Street Musicians--


“Private Symbols and Public Spectacle: The Increasing Display and Performance of Ritual and Symbol as Popular Culture in Ghana” Humboldt University, Berlin--African Studies Center


2009: “Public Enemy, Or, Sensing Censorship: Musical Performance and
Semiotic Disobedience—Popular Music Censorship in Africa (2006) in Perspective.” Research in African Literatures 40/3(Feb. 2009):220-235.

2008: “Steven Mithen, The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body.”
http://emusicology.org/v3n1/bookreview.html


"Naming And Calling Music's Origins: Mithen, Falk And The Ewe Ahanonko." Humboldt University, Berlin--Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung

Bodily and Non-Bodily Expressivity in African Performance: Field Evidence and Theoretical Perspectives in Building an Interdisciplinary Framework (see full program)

Berlin Symposium on “Kinaesthetics and
Communication” (Jan 2009)
- Centre for Literary and Cultural Studies

Map to the meeting Centre

 

2008: “In and Out of Song: Female Song Tradition and the Akan of Ghana: The Creative Process in Nnwonkoro” Research in African Literatures 29/2:131-137

2007: "Language Plots in Musical Spaces: A Response to Adams Bodomo and Manolete Mora," Empirical Musicology Review 2/3 (2007) http://emusicology.org/v2n3/contents.html

 

 “The Primacy of Local Ontologies in Understanding the Sacred-Secular
Continuum in African and African- American “Religious” Orientations.” Center for the Study of Religions, OSU, Jan. 22, 2009.


 
   

 

 

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