From 10-13 June 2015 the Dhow Countries Music Academy will host
the largest gathering of international scholars in the study of the Music of
Africa ever to be held in Tanzania. The Conference will bring together scholars
from Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Germany, United
States, Canada, United Kingdom and France to hear 40 academic papers on studies
of African Music.
The Conference is titled Memory,
Power and Knowledge in African Music and Beyond. It has been organized by
the World Music Program of Hildesheim University, Germany and is hosted by the
Dhow Countries Music Academy, Zanzibar. The Volkswagen Corporation is
sponsoring this conference.
Two major Keynote Presentations will be part of the Conference.
These will be presented by Professor Christopher Ballantine of the University
of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa titled Song,
Memory, Power and the South African Archive and Professor Philip V. Bohlman
of the University of Chicago, U.S.A. titled Africa
Aporio: Ethnomusicology in Search of Lost Time. Both of these scholars are
widely published and well noted in the field of Ethnomusicology.
The Dhow Countries Music Academy is honored to have been selected
to host this extremely high-level of scholars in the field of African Music
Study. The DCMA Taarab-Kidumbak Ensemble, returning from a performance at the
International Africa Festival in Germany, will perform for the Conference
participants on Thursday 11th June.
Dhow Countries Music Academy
P.O. Box 4055
Zanzibar / Tanzania
Tel. +255 (0) 777 416 529
Landline +255 (0) 24 223 4050
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