Nketia, J. H. Kwabena
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Funeral dirges of the Akan peopleBook 1969
- Summary
- Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia was a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer. Considered Africa's premier musicologist, during his lifetime, he was called a "living legend" and "easily the most published and best known authority on African music and aesthetics in the world", with more than 200 publications and 80 musical compositions to his credit. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5]
- Born
- 1921-06-22 [2][5]
- Birth Place
- Mampong (auj. Ghana) [3]
- Mampong [5]
- Died
- 2019-03-13 [2][5]
- Death Place
- Accra [2][5]
- Country
- Ghana [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- composer [5]
- musicologist [5]
- ethnomusicologist [5]
- university teacher [5]
- Employer
- University of Ghana [5]
- University of California, Los Angeles [5]
- University of Pittsburgh [5]
- Educated at
- Birkbeck, University of London [5]
- Northwestern University [5]
- Presbyterian College of Education, Akropong [5]
- Columbia University [5]
- Juilliard School [5]
- Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance [5]
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London [5]
- Country of Education
- United Kingdom [5]
- Ghana [5]
- United States [5]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [5]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. Wikidata
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