Ethnomusicologist and composer of Ghanaese music. UCLA professor of music. Director of the University of Ghana International Centre for African Music and Dance (ICAMD).
This series documents the history of UCLA's Institute of Ethnomusicology, which was founded in 1961 and dissolved in 1974.
Biographical Note:
Performer of Balinese and Javanese music and director of the ethnomusicology program at Loyola Marymount University. Graduate student in ethnomusicology during her time at UCLA.
Los Angeles disc jockey on soul radio stations during the 1960s and 1970s who was known as “the Master Blaster.” Producer and host of "For Members Only," a Los Angeles news and entertainment program directed at African Americans.
Musicologist, composer, and folklorist. Research professor at the UCLA Institute of Ethnomusicology and founding member of the American Society for Comparative Musicology