The Local and Global in Rap Music in Kenya
Update: 2006-09-28
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BIO: Jean Ngoya Kidula is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Georgia, where she teaches classes in music cultures of the world, African music, and African American music. Prior to her appointment at UGA, Dr. Kidula was on the Music faculty of Kenyatta University for more than 15 years. Dr. Kidula received her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology at UCLA. She has published articles on Religious popular music in Africa and the USA, on the localization of European Christianity in Kenya, on ritual music and its intersection with identity construction and on women in Music in the African academy and the popular music circuit. She continues to research the juncture of African indigenous and national with global popular and religious music. Dr, Kidula performs in a variety of ensembles that showcase indigenous Kenyan music, religious and secular popular music and European classical music.
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