Volker Linz

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	Germany
Title	Independent Scholar
Affiliation	Independent Scholar, Berlin, Germany
Email	v.linz@addcom.de
Mailing Address	Martin-Luther-Str. 125 10825 Berlin Germany
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: +49 - 30 - 78703818 fax: +49 - 30 - 78703865
Countries of Specialization	Burkina Faso ; Ghana ; ...
Research Interests	M.A. (Ethnomusicology, Anthropology); B.A. (Sociology); Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology 1997/98. Research Interests: West Africa; Burkina Faso (Dagara, Birifor, Dyan, Lobi, Doghossie, Teghessie, Dyula, Karaboro, Komono); Ghana (Dagara, Birifor, Sisaala); history (culture, political history); music (analysis, styles, history, language-music relationship); xylophones; ritual; secret societies; surrogate languages (instrumental); orature; aurature; cross-world communication. Projects: 1) Comparative regional study of xylophone traditions of the Black Volta region: distribution and historical development of styles, analysis of musicized proverbs in xylophone performance (aurature), historical development of xylophone clusters in West Africa. 2) Research project on the history and politics of mobile cults ('power associations', 'secret societies') in south-western Burkina Faso and adjacent areas in north-western Ghana.
Publications	None on file.
Keywords	xylophones ; ritual ; secret societies ; surrogate languaorature ; aurature ; communication.