V. Kofi Agawu

Victor Kofi Agawu, who publishes as V. Kofi Agawu or more often simply as Kofi Agawu, is a music scholar from the Volta Region of Ghana.[1] He specializes in musical semiotics and ethnomusicology. He is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY.[2]

Education

Agawu attended Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School at Legon (PRESEC) where he obtained his GCE Ordinary Level Certificate and went on to do this Advanced Level at Achimota School. He earned a bachelor's degree in music from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom in 1977, a master's degree in musical analysis from King's College London in 1978, and a Ph.D. in historical musicology from Stanford University in 1982.[3] He is also certified by the Royal Academy of Music in the teaching of singing and by the Royal College of Music in musicianship and theory.

Career

Agawu has taught at Princeton University, Yale University, Cornell University, King's College London, Duke University, Haverford College, and the University of Oxford.[4] In 2006, he was appointed professor of music and African and African-American studies in Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.[5] He returned to Princeton several years later and then taught at the Graduate Center, CUNY as a visiting professor, returning there in January 2019 as a Professor of Music and rising to Distinguished Professor status in July 2019.[6] His awards include the Dent Medal in 1992, awarded by the Royal Musical Association and International Musicological Society for "outstanding contribution to musicology." Agawu has written more than 75 peer-reviewed journal articles and given over 100 keynote addresses and invited lectures.[7]

In 2009, he was awarded the IRC Harrison Medal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland.[8]

Publications

He wrote the book African Rhythm, A Northern Ewe Perspective (1995), which deals with the relationship and interference of the Ewe language and their music in everyday lives revealing a greater horizon for African rhythmic expression. More recent monographs include The African Imagination in Music (2016), Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music (2009), and Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions (2003).

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References
  1. Paul W. Schauert, Representing Ghanaian Music: A Critical History (Indiana University, 2005), p. 160.
  2. "Kofi Agawu". gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
  3. University, Princeton. "Display Person - The Department of Music at Princeton University - Display Person". princeton.edu. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
  4. Agawu, Kofi (2013). "George Eastman Visiting Professorship" (PDF). Oxford Musician (3). p. 8. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  5. Brodt, Steve (April 20, 2006). "V. Kovi Agawu, musical scholar, appointed professor". Harvard Gazette.
  6. "GC Welcomes Visiting Professors Khalil Muhammad and V. Kofi Agawu". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-05.
  7. "THE GRADUATE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY CENTER APPOINTMENT OF V. KOFI AGAWU AS DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR" (PDF). BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK - BOARD COMMITTEE ON FACULTY, STAFF AND ADMINISTRATION - AGENDA, June 3, 2019. June 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-04.
  8. https://musicologyireland.com/irish-research-council-harrison-medal; retrieved 14 April 2020.
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