The Department of Music at Princeton University will host its Sixth International Symposium on the Music of Africa (SISMA). Directed by Kofi Agawu, the event will feature a lecture-demonstration by master-musician, dancer and scholar, Dr. Habib Iddrisu of the University of Oregon, a keynote address by Professor Michael Veal of Yale University (to which Professor Bode Omojola of Mount Holyoke College will serve as respondent), and a performance by the Dafra Kura Band led by master-musician Olivier Tarpaga. All events are free and open to the public.

Registration: All SISMA events are free and open to the public, but you must register to be guaranteed a seat in Taplin Auditorium. To register, email Michelle Horgan (Conference & Event Services, Princeton University).

Program

1PM Lecture-Demonstration: "Ancestral Wisdom in Dagbon"
Habib Iddrisu, University of Oregon
Drummer, dancer, storyteller

2PM Keynote: "Chaos or Curvelinearity: Digital Architecture and Distortions of the Africanist Grid in the Late Music of John Coltrane"
Michael Veal, Yale University
Bode Omojola, respondent, Mount Holyoke and the Five Colleges

4:30PM Dafra Kura Band with the African Music Ensemble
Olivier Tarpaga, Director