EOL 2: Kwayas, Kandas, Kiosks (Barz)

Biography

Barz photo Gregory Barz received the Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Brown University in 1997, submitting a dissertation titled: "The Performance of Religious and Social Identity: An Ethnography of Post-Mission Kwaya Music in Tanzania (East Africa)." He taught courses in ethnomusicology in the divisions of continuing education at the University of Chicago and at Brown University. He taught for a year in the Department of Art, Music, and Theatre at the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

Most recently, he taught ethnomusicology in the Department of Music at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada), where he was also Acting Director of the Centre for Ethnomusicology. In the summer of 1997 he will assume the position in London (U.K.) of ethnomusicology editor for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

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