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Affiliation Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

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Mailing Address 110 Weigel Hall School of Music Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio 43210-1170 USA

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Countries of Specialization Ghana

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Research Interests Special research interests in representations of Africa in the Diaspora, focusing on the performing arts; contemporary church music in Africa; urbanization and its impact on the continuity of music and dance traditions in Africa; theories of identity.

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Publications * Forthcoming 2000: Competition and Conflict as a Framework for Understanding Performance Culture among the Urban Anlo-Ewe. (Manuscript accepted and forthcoming in Ethnomusicology). Forthcoming 2000: (invited paper) 'Hal Performance as Literary Production' (Forthcoming in the special issue of Research in African Literatures [March 2000 special issue on Music and Literatures and edited by Kofi Agawu). (invited paper) The Turner-Schechner Model of Performance as Social Drama: A Re- Examination in the Light of Anlo-Ewe Hal." Research in African Literatures 30/4 (1998):144-155. "Anlo-Ewe Music and Society in the Light of Urgent Anthropo-Musicology." Bulletin of the International Union of Ethonological Sciences, no. 39 (1998):17-26. Rural-Urban Interchange: Anlo-Ewe Music Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, 1996, Africa Vol. 1., pp.389-399. "Un voyage vers l'inconnu: Conventions esthétiques dans la musique des Anlo-Ewe du Ghana," Cahiers de musiques traditionnelles 7/1 (1994):105-119. "Freedom to sing, License to Insult: The Influence of Hal Performance on Social Violence among the Anlo-Ewe," Oral Tradition 9/1 (1994): 83-112. "The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on a Village Music Culture: Some Implications for Applied Ethnomusicology," African Music 7/2 (1992):45-57. "Some Contributions of Hal Music to Research Theory and Pragmatics," Bul. of the Int. Comm. on Urgent Anthr. & Ethnol. Research 32-33 (1990-91): 61-80.

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