(Posted 4-18-00)
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News Service Contact: Natasha Ashe, 336-334-5371

REED SPEAKS AT AFRICAN MUSIC STUDIES CONFERENCE

GREENSBORO — Dr. Daniel Reed, an assistant professor of music at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, spoke recently at the “Revitalizing African Music Studies in Higher Education” conference at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

The Ann Arbor-based U.S. Secretariat of the International Centre for African Music and Dance at the University of Legon, Ghana, organized the invitation only conference of top scholars in African music studies from North America and Africa.
Reed’s topic, “New Approaches and Interdisciplinary Perspectives in African Music Pedagogy,” focused on a CD-ROM he has coming out later this year. The CD-ROM entitled “Music and Culture of West Africa: The Straus Expedition” is based on recordings and film footage documenting a research expedition in West Africa by Laura Bolton, who traveled the world recording music from the 1920s to 1970s.

Reed has been an assistant professor at UNCG since August 1999. He has published on the subject of historical ethnomusicology and holiday celebrations. He is currently revising a book manuscript on his primary research interest: mask performance among the Dan of Cote d’ Ivoire (Ivory Coast). Reed received his Ph.D. from Indiana University.

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