Faculty and Projects



portrait of Daniel AvorgbedorDaniel Avorgbedor

music of Africa and the African diaspora, contemporary church
music of Africa, performance practice, urban ethnomusicology


Ron Emoff, Associate Professor Associate Professor of the School of Music and Department of Anthropology, OSU Newark campus, playing Gambian kora at home in Newark, OhioRon Emoff, Associate Professor Associate Professor of the School of Music and Department of Anthropology, OSU Newark campus, playing Gambian kora at home in Newark, OhioRon Emoff

Music and devotion, colonialism and post-colonialism,
recollecting the past; poetics and aesthetics; music as
expressive culture; Madagascar and Africa, French Antilles, Southwest Louisiana

portrait of Margarita MazoMargarita Mazo

Russian vernacular and art musics, Stravinsky, Shostakovich;
music and emotion; identity, continuity, and change in music culture

portrait of Udo WillUdo Will

Music and the brain, music in oral cultures, musical evolution,
Australian Aboriginal music, Chinese and Indian music