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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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