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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[edit]
He 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[edit]
In 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[edit]
Books[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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