J. H. Kwabena Nketia (1921–2019)
Autor/a de The Music of Africa
Sobre l'autor
Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia was born in Asante Mampong, Ghana on June 22, 1921. He received training in European music theory as a high school student at the Presbyterian Training College. In 1944, he received a Britain's Commonwealth scholarship. He went to England to study linguistics at the mostra'n més School of Oriental and African Studies. He also took classes at the Trinity College of Music and Birkbeck College at the University of London. He became an ethnomusicologist, composer, and leading scholar on African musical traditions. In 1952, he accepted a research fellowship in African studies at what is now the University of Ghana. He traveled to the United States in 1958 on a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship. Over the course of one year, he studied at Juilliard, Columbia University and Northwestern University. In 1961, he became the deputy director of the University of Ghana's new Institute of African Studies. Three years later, he became the first African to serve as the institute's director. He later became the founding director of what is now the School of Performing Arts. He wrote several books during his lifetime including The Music of Africa, Ethnomusicology and African Music, and Reinstating Traditional Music in Contemporary Contexts. He also wrote music for choirs, solo voices and instrumental groups that used both African and Western instruments. He died on March 13, 2019 at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de J. H. Kwabena Nketia
African Gods and Music 1 exemplars
African music: Meeting in YaoundeÌ (Cameroon) 23-27 February 1970. Organized by UNESCO (1972) 1 exemplars
The Music of Africa by Nketia, J. H. Kwabeha, Nketia, Joseph H., Nketia Kwabena J H published by W. W. Norton & Company… (1974) 1 exemplars
Akanfoo nnwom bi nsem 1 exemplars
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- Nom oficial
- Nketia, Joseph Hanson Kwabena
- Data de naixement
- 1921-06-22
- Data de defunció
- 2019-03-13
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Ghana
- Lloc de naixement
- Mampong, Ghana
- Lloc de defunció
- Legon, Ghana
- Educació
- University of London (Birkbeck College)
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Columbia University
Juilliard School
Northwestern University - Professions
- ethnomusicologist
composer
professor (Music Theory) - Organitzacions
- International Centre for African Music and Dance
Nketia Music Foundation - Premis i honors
- Rockefeller Fellowship (1958)
Companion of the Order of the Star of Ghana
Grand Medal of the Government of Ghana
IMC-UNESCO Prize for Distinguished Service to Music
Prince Claus Award (1997)
Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Studies Association of the USA (2000)
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 12
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 73
- Popularitat
- #240,526
- Valoració
- 4.3
- ISBN
- 8