Event
Songs and Female Names in Contemporary Nigeria: A Mother's Prayer or Men's Muse?
Event Speaker
Ruth Opara
Assistant Professor of Music, Colombia University
Lerner Center 101, Penn Music Building 201 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA
This lecture is part of the 2024-25 Penn Music Colloquium Series. The Department of Music's main Colloquium Series showcases new research by leading scholars in music and sound studies and composers both in the United States and internationally. All Music Colloquia will take place in Room 101 of the Lerner Center on Tuesdays at 5:15 PM.
Featured Speaker
Ruth Opara is an Assistant Professor of Music at Colombia University. Her research centers on African and African diasporic music and knowledge production. Specifically, music and decolonial discourse, women in music, music and gender, and African music and transnational encounters. As a practitioner, a teacher, and a scholar who has lived and taught on the African continent and the diaspora, Ruth successfully straddles both world’s musical cultures. She is working on her current book on the intersection of music and motherhood.