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My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Graduate Student |
| Location | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Introduction | I am an ethnomusicologist. There’s a lot of debate out there about what the term really means and what it is that ethnomusicologists do. After five years of graduate studies in ethnomusicology, I have to concede that I am not very sure myself how to answer those questions, but for the sake of simplicity, let us define ethnomusicology as the study of the musical cultures of the world. I am a currently at the fieldwork stage of my PhD degree in ethnomusicology at the University of Pittsburgh. My chosen research topic is post-Fela Afrobeat. By fieldwork, I mean traveling to areas of relevance to my chosen research topic—in this case, New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Lagos Nigeria, where I conduct interviews with Afrobeat musicians, attend their shows and events, and collect miscellaneous data…continued in post. |
| Interests | Literature, theater, architecture/real estate, publishing, travel,fashion, tennis, photography, music. |
| Favorite movies | Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Color Purple, Moulin Rouge, Chocolat... |
| Favorite music | Latin, Jazz, Soul, Afrobeat |
| Favorite books | The Famished Road (Ben Okri) |