Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia FGA GM MSG (22 June 1921 – 13 March 2019) was a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer. Considered Africa's premier musicologist...
18 KB (1,663 words) - 19:02, 26 April 2024
(soccer) player Kwabena Darko, Ghanaian businessman and politician Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Ghanaian cardiovascular surgeon J. H. Kwabena Nketia (1921–2019)...
4 KB (389 words) - 22:27, 17 February 2024
List of composers of African descent (section J)
1991) Gary Powell Nash, US (born 1964) Oliver Nelson, US (1932–1975) J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Ghana (1921–2019) Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, US (1932–2004) Julia...
11 KB (1,093 words) - 04:57, 24 January 2024
Akin Euba (category Articles with hCards)
Los Angeles, where he studied with Mantle Hood, Charles Seeger, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Klaus Wachsmann, and Roy Travis. He held a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology...
8 KB (827 words) - 19:17, 21 February 2024
Music (category Articles with hAudio microformats)
is too diverse to make firm generalizations, but the musicologist J. H. Kwabena Nketia has emphasized African music's often inseparable connection to dance...
138 KB (16,011 words) - 09:43, 14 May 2024
Diabate Kora (instrument) Ngoni (instrument) Rubab (instrument) J. H. Kwabena Nketia (1974). The Music of Africa. New York: W. W. Norton and Company....
8 KB (673 words) - 07:06, 17 April 2024
Interpretation, compiled by J. H. Kwabena Nketia, pp. 1–20. Accra, Ghana: Afram Publications (Ghana) Ltd. Nketia, J.H. Kwabena, and Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje...
8 KB (892 words) - 08:20, 1 July 2023
List of Ghanaian writers (section H)
model Caleb Azumah Nelson (1993/1994–), writer and photographer J. H. Kwabena Nketia (1921–2019), ethnomusicologist[Jahn] Gamal Nkrumah (1959–), journalist...
11 KB (1,035 words) - 06:24, 25 May 2024
collaterally dependent on the voice of the leader". Lazarus Ekweme quotes J. H. Kwabena Nketia saying "In chorus response, there is primacy in the sense that one...
33 KB (4,305 words) - 09:18, 28 February 2024
Efua Sutherland (category Articles with hCards)
joined the staff of the new School of Music and Drama, headed by J. H. Kwabena Nketia. In 1963, when Sutherland took on the role of Research Associate...
34 KB (3,584 words) - 22:25, 15 April 2024