International Studies Forum

The Center for International Studies
is pleased to present:

Music and the
Politics of Culture
in Mali: A Postcolonial
History

Dr. Ryan Skinner
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, The Ohio State University

Friday, May 18
Scripps Auditorium 111, 3-4:30 pm

Dr. Skinner holds a Ph.D in ethnomusicology from Columbia University, 2009, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Music and African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University.

He studies musical performance, listening, space, sound, subjectivity, and ethics in Africa and its European and American diasporas. Currently his work pertains to popular culture, personhood, postcolonial and global modernity, and the professional status and identity of Malian artists in Bamako and New York City.

He has published articles and reviews in several leading music and arts Journals as well as being an award-winning author and illustrator of the children’s book, Sidikiba’s Kora Lesson