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Austin C. Okigbo is an ethnomusicologist and Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Colorado Boulder.[1] His writings have appeared in The Journal of the International Library of African Music, Ethnomusicology, Africa Today, Du Bois Review, and Journal of Folklore Research.[2] He is the editor of the 2015 World of Music on the New African Musical Diasporas.[3]
He is serving as the director of the American Music Research Center (AMRC) at CU Boulder.[4]
Education
editHe earned MA in music education from Westminster Choir College, where he accompanied with Joseph Flummerfelt and James Jordan, and completed performance tracks in vocal and choral conducting.[5] He completed his PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington. Additionally, he holds degrees from the Pontifical Urban University in Rome in philosophy and theology.[2]
Career
editIn Nigeria, South Africa, and the US, Okigbo has led church and community choirs as well as high school and university ensembles, including the Indiana Jacob School of Music's International Vocal Ensemble.[6] In addition, he has worked as a gumboot dance choreographer for the Squonk Opera, His other areas of interest include xylophones, the Zimbabwean Shona marimba, and West African drumming.[5]
He has studied the use of protest liturgy and religious music in the antiapartheid movements, church music as a forum for interaction between faith and culture in South Africa and Nigeria, and music and the global politics of HIV/AIDS. He is also involved in preserving cultural heritage, notably through projects such as Soundscapes of the People: A Musical Ethnography of Pueblo, Colorado, aims to document Pueblo's[clarification needed] history through its musical traditions.[7]
He is the author of "Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health: Ethnography of a South African AIDS Choir" and has published articles in journals such as Africa Today and Ethnomusicology.
Selected bibliography
editBooks
edit- Okigbo, Austin C. (2016-08-03). Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health: Ethnography of a South African AIDS Choir. Lexington Books.
- Nnodim, Paul; Okigbo, Austin (2024). Ubuntu: A Comparative Study of an African Concept of Justice. Leuven University Press. ISBN 978-94-6270-393-3.
Journals
edit- Okigbo, Austin C. (2010). "Musical Inculturation, Theological Transformation, and the Construction of Black Nationalism in Early South African Choral Music Tradition". Africa Today. 57 (2): 42–65. doi:10.2979/africatoday.57.2.42. ISSN 0001-9887. JSTOR 10.2979/africatoday.57.2.42.
- Okigbo, Austin C. (2017). "South African Music in the History of Epidemics". Journal of Folklore Research. 54 (1–2): 87–118. doi:10.2979/jfolkrese.54.2.04.
- Okigbo, Austin (20 February 2022). "Liturgy and Musical Inculturation in a Post-Apartheid South African Catholicism". Yale Journal of Music & Religion. 7 (2). doi:10.17132/2377-231X.1190. ISSN 2377-231X.
- Okigbo, Austin C. (2015). ""Ahịajiọkụ" in Chicago: Festival, Music, and the Performance of Nigerian Igbo Identity in a North American City". The World of Music. 4 (2): 99–118. ISSN 0043-8774. JSTOR 43774596.
- Okigbo, Austin C; Ezumah, Bellarmine A (2017). "Media Health Images of Africa and the Politics of Representation: A South African AIDS Choir Counter-Narrative". Journal of Asian and African Studies. 52 (5): 705–721. doi:10.1177/0021909615608208. ISSN 0021-9096.
References
edit- ^ "'Song of Pueblo' gets full orchestra premiere". Denver 7 Colorado News (KMGH). 2023-10-20. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ a b https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=africana_faculty_pubs Christopher Okigbo opher Okigbo’s Intentions: A Critical E s Intentions: A Critical Edition of a Pr dition of a Previously viously Unpublished Inter Unpublished Interview
- ^ "2015-2 | the world of music (new series)". Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ "American Music Research Center announces interim director, upcoming events". American Music Research Center. 2023-09-13. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ a b "2011-12 New Faculty". Faculty at Williams. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ https://vivo.colorado.edu/vitas/151507.pdf Austin Okigbo is associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, College of Music, and interim director of the American Music Research Cente
- ^ Bartolo, James. "CU study on Pueblo's cultural music has collected 27 oral histories so far". The Peublo Chieftain.
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