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Lecture: Ryan Skinner (Ohio State University)

Date

October 17, 2013 - 2:00pm

Ryan Skinner, Assistant Professor of Musicology at Ohio State University, will give a lecture titled “Music as Biopolitical Culture in Contemporary Mali.” 

Ryan Skinner is an ethnomusicologist who studies the local and global music cultures of Mali (West Africa) and its European and American diasporas. Specializing in the analytic methods of cultural anthropology and musicology, his research focuses on issues of popular culture, ethics, aesthetics, urbanism, public piety, cultural politics, and globalization. Skinner’s work has appeared in the journals Anthropological Quarterly, Africa, Popular Music, IASPM@Journal, Mande Studies, Research in African Literatures, The Journal of American Folklore, and African Arts. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled, “Afropolitan Ethics: Music, Morality, and Urban Culture in Bamako, Mali.” He is also the author and illustrator of a children's book, Sidikiba's Kora Lesson (Beaver's Pond Press, 2008) and is an accomplished kora (21-stringed West African harp) player. Skinner holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from Columbia University (2009) and is currently an assistant professor of Music and of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University.

Concert Series

Admission

Free