Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia FGA GM MSG (22 June 1921 – 13 March 2019) was a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer. Considered Africa's premier musicologist...
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(soccer) player Kwabena Darko, Ghanaian businessman and politician Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Ghanaian cardiovascular surgeon J. H. Kwabena Nketia (1921–2019)...
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Tsikata and Rev. Dr. Priscilla Naana Nketia, a lawyer and pastor. His maternal grandfather J. H. Kwabena Nketia was a composer, professor and ethnomusicologist...
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List of composers of African descent (section J)
1991) Gary Powell Nash, US (born 1964) Oliver Nelson, US (1932–1975) J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Ghana (1921–2019) Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, US (1932–2004) Julia...
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Los Angeles, where he studied with Mantle Hood, Charles Seeger, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Klaus Wachsmann, and Roy Travis. He held a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology...
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is too diverse to make firm generalizations, but the musicologist J. H. Kwabena Nketia has emphasized African music's often inseparable connection to dance...
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non-griot lute, wooden trough resonator, cylinder-shaped bridge... J. H. Kwabena Nketia (1974). The Music of Africa. New York: W. W. Norton and Company....
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and identity", and he was also able to study with the musicologist J. H. Kwabena Nketia. In 1960, while he was on home leave from Ghana, Brathwaite married...
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collaterally dependent on the voice of the leader". Lazarus Ekweme quotes J. H. Kwabena Nketia saying "In chorus response, there is primacy in the sense that one...
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Interpretation, compiled by J. H. Kwabena Nketia, pp. 1–20. Accra, Ghana: Afram Publications (Ghana) Ltd. Nketia, J.H. Kwabena, and Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje...
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[December]): 490–91. Retrieved 22 June 2012. Citation on p. 491. J. H. Kwabena Nketia (2001) "Ghana, Republic of [formerly Gold Coast]", The New Grove...
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joined the staff of the new School of Music and Drama, headed by J. H. Kwabena Nketia. In 1963, when Sutherland took on the role of Research Associate...
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rediscovery. Cowell resumed teaching — Burt Bacharach, Dominick Argento, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, and Irwin Swack were among his postwar students — and served as...
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Evans-Anfom Mary Grant Aliu Mahama Joseph Henry Mensah John Atta Mills J. H. Kwabena Nketia Kwame Nkrumah Paul Victor Obeng William Ofori Atta Atukwei Okai Victor...
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List of Ghanaian writers (section H)
model Caleb Azumah Nelson (1993/1994–), writer and photographer J. H. Kwabena Nketia (1921–2019), ethnomusicologist[Jahn] Gamal Nkrumah (1959–), journalist...
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of its kind in 1962. It was then directed by Emeritus Professor J. H. Kwabena Nketia, with Professor Mawere Opoku as the artistic director; it was endorsed...
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Publications Unit and Store, Offices for the Ghana Dance Ensemble and the J. H. Kwabena Nketia Archives, as well as offices of a some international programmes....
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de México Vice-president (Communications): Judith Opoku-Boateng, J. H. Kwabena Nketia Archives, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana Secretary-General:...
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1947), founder and leader of Kumapim Royals Band, highlife musician J. H. Kwabena Nketia (1921–2019), ethnomusicologist and composer Ebenezer Augustus Kwasi...
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Western classical and popular music; Ghanaian ethnomusicologist J. H. Kwabena Nketia has observed the benefits of such techniques in West African music...
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Eric (2016-11-30). "Personalities in World Music Education No 14 – J.H. Kwabena Nketia". International Journal of Music Education: 41–45. doi:10.1177/025576149201900106...
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edu.gh. Retrieved 2022-04-02. Russonello, Giovanni (2019-03-19). "J.H. Kwabena Nketia, 97, Pre-eminent Scholar of African Music, Dies". The New York Times...
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Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka and Nadine Gordimer, Emeritus Professor J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Professor Femi Osofisan, Prof. Ali Mazrui, and others. Apeakorang...
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(1967/8) Four African Sketches (1980?, for guitar, dedicated to J.H. [Kwabena] Nketia), Folk Prelude; Shadow of the Moons; Circle Dance, African Rhondo...
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"National Honours and Awards - GhanaToday". Retrieved 2024-04-13. "J.H. Kwabena Nketia". Society for Ethnomusicology. Retrieved 26 April 2018. "Afari-Gyan...
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Ebenezer Laing Ivan Addae Mensah Joy Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia Kwame Nkrumah Daniel Ahmling Chapman Nyaho Letitia Obeng George Tawia...
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to be in the company of literary giants like Michael Dei-Anang, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Efua Sutherland, the late Kofi Awoonor, Crakye Denteh, Kwesi Brew...
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Burt Bacharach John Cage George Gershwin Lou Harrison Ruth Crawford J. H. Kwabena Nketia Irwin Swack ...more... Related Rhythmicon Avant-garde music String...
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Spirituals (category Articles with hAudio microformats)
biblical information and facts from their other sources into song. J.H. Kwabena Nketia (1921–2019) described by the New York Times in 2019, as a "pre-eminent...
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Burt Bacharach John Cage George Gershwin Lou Harrison Ruth Crawford J. H. Kwabena Nketia Irwin Swack ...more... Related Rhythmicon Avant-garde music String...
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