Jean Kidula
Assistant
Professor
447 Music Building
(706) 542-2791
jkidula@uga.edu
Education: Ph.D. - University of California, Los Angeles
Current Research Interests: African Music, Ritual and religions music, Popular
music, African perspectives on Aesthetics of music, Music in the
African Academy
Courses Taught: Music
Cultures of the World: The Western Hemisphere, Topics in World
Music Cultures, and African American Music
Selected
Publications:
“Polishing the Luster
of the Stars: Music Professionalism Made Workable in Kenya”.Ethnomusicology,
44 (3), pp. 408-428.
2000:“The
Impact of the Christian Music Industry in Shaping Theological
and Musical Trends in Kenya”. Worship Leader, 43
(1), pp. 4-11.
Regional
Interests: East Africa [Kenya], Southern Africa, Central Africa |