DAMASCUS KAFUMBE, Ph.D.
Middlebury College Department of Music
Mahaney Arts Center 308
72 Porter Field Road
Middlebury, Vermont 05753
Email: dkafumbe@middlebury.edu
Phone: (802)443-5578
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION AND HISTORY
Education/Degrees
Fall 2011: Ph.D., Musicology – Ethnomusicology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. Dissertation: “The Kawuugulu Royal Drums: Musical Regalia, History, and Social Organization among the Baganda of Uganda.”
Fall 2006: M.M., Musicology – Ethnomusicology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. Thesis: “The Kings’ Royal Musicians of Buganda-Uganda: Their Role and Significance during King Sir Edward Frederick Muteesa II’s Reign (1939-1966).”
Fall 2004: B.M., Music, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Thesis: “The Continuity and Change of the Nnanga (Bow-harp) among the Baganda People of Southern Central Uganda.” Senior Recital: Piano and ndongo (bowl-lyre). Compositions: Piano inventions and fugues; song-cycle).
Areas of Expertise
Ethnomusicologist, teacher, performer, composer, producer, filmmaker, and instrument technician.
Research and Scholarly Interests
African studies, performance, history, philosophy, politics, ritual, spirituality, and social organization.
Languages
Luganda (native speaker); English (fluent); Runyoro, Rutooro, Lusoga, Runyankore, Rukiga (intermediate); German, Swahili (conversational); French (reading competent).
Professional Affiliations
African Studies Association (ASA); American Musicological Society (AMS); International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTDM); Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM); Voluntary Promoters of Church Music (VPCM).
Employment (Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT)
Spring 2023-Present * Edward C. Knox Professor of International Studies.
Summer 2023-Present * Professor of Music.
Spring 2018-Spring 2023 * Associate Professor of Music.
Fall 2011-Spring 2018 * Assistant Professor of Music.
Fall 2018-Present * Director, Middlebury College Afropop Band.
Fall 2011-Present * Director, Middlebury College African Music and Dance Ensemble.
Fall 2013-Present * Director, Instrument Maintenance.
Honors and Prizes
Winter 2024 * Recipient of the Warren D. Allen Citation for Excellence in Scholarship, awarded by the Florida State University College of Music to “an alumnus…who has distinguished themselves above and beyond in the areas of research, service, and teaching.”
Fall 2020 * Recipient of the Kwabena Nketia Book Prize of the Society for Ethnomusicology African and African Diasporic Music Section.
Fall 2019 * Recipient of an Honorable Mention for the Ogot Book Prize of the African Studies Association.
Fall 2017 * Honored through annual giving in support of the faculty work at Middlebury College.
Fall 2015 * Receipt of the Middlebury Peter E. Branch ’65 Exceptional Junior Faculty Award.
Grants
Fall 2022-Spring 2023 * Provost’s Office Enrichment Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Summer 2022 * International Conference and Research Grant, Middlebury College.
Summer 2022 * Summer Research Assistant Award, Middlebury College.
Spring 2022 * Provost’s Office Enrichment Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Spring 2022 * Scholarly Publication Subvention Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Spring 2022 * Subvention Grant, Pabst Steinmetz Foundation.
Fall 2021-Spring 2022 * Undergraduate Collaborative Research Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2021-Spring 2022 * Faculty Research Assistant Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2021-Spring 2022 * Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Summer 2021-Fall 2021 * Midd.Data Microgrant, Middlebury College.
Summer 2021 * Summer Research Assistant Award, Middlebury College.
Fall 2020-Spring 2021 * Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant, Middlebury College
Summer 2020 * Digital Liberal Arts Grant, Middlebury College.
Summer 2020 * Summer Research Assistant Award, Middlebury College.
Summer 2020 * International Conference and Research Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2019-Summer 2023 * Long-term Professional Development Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2019 * Fund for Innovation Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2019-Spring 2020 * Faculty Research Assistant Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Summer 2019 * International Conference and Research Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2018-Spring 2019 * Faculty Research Assistant Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2018-Spring 2019 * Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant, Middlebury College
Fall 2018 * Carolina Music Museum Grant School Outreach Grant (supported residencies in Greensville, SC).
Fall 2018 * BMW School Outreach Grant (supported residencies in Greensville, SC).
Fall 2018 * Metropolitan Arts Council School Outreach Grants (supported residencies in Greensville, SC).
Spring 2018 * One Middlebury Grant, Middlebury College.
Summer 2018 * Travel Discretionary Grant, Middlebury College.
Summer 2018 * International Conference and Research Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2017-Spring 2018 * Faculty Research Assistant Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2017-Spring 2018 * Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
2017 * Society for Ethnomusicology Diversity Action Committee Research and Publication Award.
2017 * American Musicological Society 75 PAYS Endowment Publication Subvention Award.
2017 * Pabst Charitable Foundation of the Arts Book Subvention Award.
2017 * Scholarly Publication Subvention Fund Award, Middlebury College.
2017-2018 * Middlebury Fund for Innovation Award, Middlebury College.
Fall 2016-Spring 2017 * Faculty Research Assistant Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2016-Spring 2017 * Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2016-Spring 2017 * Community Engagement Award, Middlebury College.
Fall 2015-Spring 2016 * Faculty Research Assistant Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2015-Spring 2016 * Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2015-Spring 2016 * Ada Howe Kent Faculty Award, Middlebury College.
Fall 2014-Spring 2015 * Faculty Research Assistant Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2014-Spring 2015 * Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Summer 2014 * International Conference and Research Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2015-Spring 2016 * Mellon International Research Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2015-Spring 2016 * Committee on the Arts (CoTA) Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2015-Spring 2016 * Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship (co-developed a B.A. Music program at University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria).
Fall 2013-Spring 2014 * Faculty Research Assistant Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2013-Spring 2014 * Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2013-Spring 2014 * Middlebury Student Government Association Marjorie Lamberti Faculty Appreciation Award Nominee.
Fall 2013-Spring 2014 * Middlebury Undergraduate Collaborative Research Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2013-Spring 2014 * Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2012-Spring 2013 * Faculty Research Assistant Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2012-Spring 2013 * Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2011-Spring 2012 * Faculty Research Assistant Fund Grant, Middlebury College.
Fall 2011-Spring 2012 * Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant, Middlebury College
TEACHING AND ADVISING ACTIVITIES
Courses Designed, Developed, and Taught since Fall 2011
SUMR 1007 (Performing Arts and Community Engagement in Uganda).
MUSC 0134 (Introduction to World Music, redesigned and renamed What in the World is Music?).
MUSC 0244 (African Music and Dance Performance).
MUSC 0235 (Introduction to Field and Lab Techniques in Ethnomusicology, redesigned and renamed Music Ethnography).
MUSC 0236 (Introduction to African Music, redesigned and renamed African Soundscapes).
MUSC 0334, formerly MUSC 0234 (Music in World Cultures).
MUSC 0400 (Ethnomusicological Approaches and Methods, redesigned and renamed Approaches to Music Research, redesigned and renamed Approaches to Music Inquiry).
FYSE 1484 (World Musical Instruments).
FYSE 1545 (African Musical Lifestyles).
MUSC 0205E (Performance Lab – Afropop).
Theses, Senior Projects, and/or Independent Studies Supervised
Winter 2021-Spring 2022 * Advisor, “Modalities of Meaning: The Production and Negotiation of Musical Significance in Bella Ciao.” MUSC Senior thesis by Ssassi Massimo ’22.
Winter 2022 * Advisor, “Literature, Music, and Interconnection: Art as a Practice in Plurality.” MUSC Independent study by Ryo Nishikubo ’23.
Fall 2021-Winter 2022 * Second Reader, “Una Nueva Combinación Mundial, Balkaton.” IGS Senior thesis by Sergiu White ’22.
Fall 2021 * Advisor, “Literature Review for ‘Modalities of Meaning: The Production and Negotiation of Musical Significance in Bella Ciao.’” MUSC Independent Study by Ssassi Massimo ’22.
Fall 2020-Spring 2021 * Second Reader, “Political Ecology and Environmental Justice in the Selenga River Basin: Water Governance and Musical Culture in Mongolia and Siberia.” Honors IGS thesis by Irene Fernald ’21.
Summer 2021-Present * Committee member, “Bongo Flava Nation: The Confluence of Politics and Popular Music in Tanzania.” Ph.D. dissertation by Lucas Avidan, UCLA.
Fall 2020-Spring 2021 * Advisor, “Musical Performance, Storytelling, and Memory at Eastview in Middlebury.” MUSC Senior thesis by Dylan Healy ’21.
Spring 2020 * Second Reader, “Musical Memory: Nass el-Ghiwane and their Influence on Moroccan Culture and Identity.” MUSC Senior project (podcast) by Evan Mercer ’20.
Spring 2019 * Co-advisor, “Nāda Yoga & the Musical Brain: Kīrtana Composition and Paper.” Senior independent study by Zoe Moynihan ’19.
Spring 2018 * Advisor, “Todos Perdidos: A Composition for Big Band.” Original composition by Jack Herscowitz ’20.
Fall 2014-Spring 2015 * Advisor, “African Music Performance in the American Academy: Capital Exchange, Institutional Dynamics, and the Challenges of Representation.” MUSC senior thesis by Dante Francomano ’15. Based on ethnographic research in Cameroon, supported by a Mellon Foundation Research grant.
Fall 2014-Spring 2015 * Advisor, “Signs, Sounds, and Hip-Hop Slang: Tanzanian Bongo Flava and Its Relationship to the American Music Business.” MUSC senior thesis by Lucas Avidan ’15.
Fall 2013-Spring 2014 * Advisor, “The Transaction of Power and Expression of Cultural Values in African Musical Pedagogy.” MUSC senior project by Dante Francomano ’15.
Fall 2014-Spring 2014 * Advisor, “Modern Interpretations of Traditional Ugandan Xylophone Music.” MUSC senior project by Erik Benepe ’14.
Fall 2011-Spring 2012 * Advisor, “Revolición to Reguetón: Popular Music and Cultural Change in Modern Cuba.” LAS senior thesis by William Hardcastle ’12.
Fall 2011-Spring 2012 * Second reader, “Reframing Agency and Right This Way.” DANC independent project by Sarah Chapin ’12.
Fall 2011-Spring 2012 * Second reader, “Constructing the Legacy of Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Revolutionary Press in the French Revolution of 1789.” EUS thesis by Allison LaCroix ’12.
Student Conference/Symposium Papers Supervised and Sponsored
Spring 2022 * Advisor, “From Italian Folk Traditions to TikTok Feeds: Problematizing Assumptions of Authorship through the Dynamic History of Bella Ciao.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Massimo Sassi ’22, virtual, Winner of the Lise Waxer Prize for best undergraduate paper.
Spring 2022 * Advisor, “‘Soy Latina, Baby’: Definitions Regarding the New Owners of Reggaeton.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Sergiu White ’22, virtual.
Spring 2022 * Advisor, “Buryat Musical Culture as a Source of Environmental Rights.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Irene Fernald ’22, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, virtual.
Spring 2022 * Advisor, “Music as Literature: Challenging Unidirectional Conceptions of Meaning in Art.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Ryo Nishikubo ’23, virtual.
Spring 2021 * Advisor, “The Music of Margot Loyola and Luis Advis: Model of Memory and Creation in the ‘Nueva Canción Chilena’” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Jack Herscowitz ’20, virtual, Winner of the Lise Waxer Prize for best undergraduate paper.
Spring 2018 * Advisor, “Todos Perdidos: A Composition for Big Band.” Presented at the Middlebury College Annual Spring Student Symposium by Jack Herscowitz ’20, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2017 * Advisor, “Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert: African, European, and South Asian Musical Syncretism in American Jazz.” Presented at the Middlebury College Annual Spring Student Symposium by Jack Herscowitz ’20, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2017 * Advisor, “Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert: African, European, and South Asian Musical Syncretism in American Jazz.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2015 * Advisor, “African Music Performance in the American Academy: Capital Exchange, Institutional Dynamics, and the Challenges of Representation.” Presented as part of the Middlebury Mellon/Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs CGA Research Grant Presentation Series by Dante Francomano ’15. Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2015 * Advisor, “The Economics of Popular Music: Exchange and Monetary Gain in the Tanzanian Bongo Flava Music Business” by Lucas Avidan ’15. Presented at the Middlebury Spring Student Symposium by Dante Francomano ’15, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2015 * Advisor, “Matatizo” and Kenyans’ Shared Political History: A Nation’s ‘Problems’ Revisited in Song.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Julia Paolillo ’16, Providence, RI.
Spring 2014 * Advisor, “A Voice of Their Own: Bongo Flava Music and Youth Identity in Contemporary Tanzania.” Presented at Middlebury Spring Student Symposium by Lucas Avidan ’15, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2014 * Advisor, “A Voice of Their Own: Bongo Flava Music and Youth Identity in Contemporary Tanzania.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Lucas Avidan ’15, Norton, MA. Winner of the Lise Waxer Prize for best undergraduate paper.
Spring 2014 * Advisor, “The Gourd-Resonated Musical Bow in Southern Africa: Traditional and Neo-Traditional Playing Style.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Jacob Wyse ’14, Norton, MA.
Spring 2014 * Advisor, “Playing from the Same Horn: The Context and Racial Politics behind the Musics of Louis Armstrong and Hugh Masekela.” Presented at Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Dante Francomano ’15, Norton, MA.
Spring 2013 * Advisor, “The Transaction of Power in Ugandan Musical Pedagogy.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Dante Francomano ’15, Brunswick, ME. Winner of the Lise Waxer Prize for best undergraduate paper.
Spring 2013 * Advisor, “Conflict Resolution in Traditional Ugandan Music.” Presented at Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Tiffany Ting ’14, Brunswick, ME.
Spring 2013 * Advisor, “The Therapeutic Value of Ugandan Musical Performance.” Presented at Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Olivia Case ’15, Brunswick, ME.
Spring 2012 * Advisor, “Watoto Child Care Ministries: An Examination of Orphan Choirs in Uganda.” Presented at Middlebury Spring Student Symposium by Hannah Dietrich ’14, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2012 * Advisor, “Popular Music and Society in Cuba.” Presented at the Middlebury Spring Student Symposium by William Hardcastle ’12, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2012 * Advisor, “Watoto Child Care Ministries: An Examination of Orphan Choirs in Uganda.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Hannah Dietrich ’14, Medford, MA.
Spring 2012 * Advisor, “Violin in Carnatic and Western Classical Music Traditions.” Presented at Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Nicole Hansen ’12, Medford, MA. Winner of the Lise Waxer Prize for best undergraduate paper.
Spring 2012 * Advisor, “Capoeira: Music and Dance of Resistance and Brotherhood.” Presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Taylor Bickford ’14, Medford, MA.
Spring 2012 * Advisor, “Isicathamiya: Missionary Influence on South African A cappella Music.” Presented at Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting by Catherine Charnov ’12, Medford, MA.
Out-of-Class Learning Activities/Residencies Organized/Presenters Hosted
Spring 2021 * Virtual residency by ethnomusicologist Elizabeth Clendinning.
Fall 2019 * Residency by ethnomusicologist Peter Hoesing.
Spring 2018 * Korean music concert by the Chunhogarang Ensemble.
Spring 2018 * Brazilian music lecture-demonstration by Hamilton Pinheiro.
Spring 2018 * West African music concert by John Hughes.
Spring 2018 * Residency by ethnomusicologist Carlos Odria and the Carlos Odria Ensemble.
Fall 2017 * Residency by ethnomusicologist Frank Gunderson.
Spring 2017 * Residency by ethnomusicologist Lynnsey Weissenberger.
Winter 2017 * Indiana classical music performances by Veena and Devesh Chandra.
Winter 2017 * Residency by ethnomusicologist William Cheng.
Fall 2016 * Residency by shaman Zacciah Blackburn.
Fall 2016 * Student field trip to Sunreed Instruments, Ascutney.
Spring 2015 * Residency by Ugandan percussionist Richard Sewagudde.
Spring 2015 * Co-organizer, UMOJA’s Annual AMKA Conference.
Spring 2015 * Co-host, Nile Project.
Spring 2014 * Co-organizer UMOJA’s Annual AMKA Conference.
Spring 2014 * Taikoza Japanese Musical Ensemble.
Spring 2014 * Dr. Joseph Hellweg.
Fall 2013 * Co-host and interviewer of artist and social advocate Angelique Kidjo.
Winter 2013 * Residency by Ugandan percussionist Samuel Bakkabulindi.
Fall 2012 * Residency by ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan.
Spring 2012 * Residency by ethnomusicologist Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza.
Spring 2012 * Residency by Guinean musician and dancer Soriba “Simbo”.
Spring 2012 * Residency by Balla Kouyate & World Vision.
Spring 2012 * Residency by the Somali-Bantu Wedding Band.
SCHOLARLY, CREATIVE, AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Publications
Books
2024 * Power Relations in Court Song: Musical Meaning and Political Life in Uganda. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
2018 * Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Musical Performance, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
Under review * Becoming and Being a King’s Performer: Biographies of the Last Court Musicians of Buganda. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
In Progress * Towards a Decolonial Pedagogy: Undergraduate Perspectives on Learning in an African Music and Dance Performance Course. Manuscript to be submitted to Routledge.
Online Courses
2022. * “Popular Music from Africa: Part 2.” Co-developed with Janine Tiffe and Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis. Portland, OR: Music Workshop.
2022. * “Popular Music from Africa: art 1.” Co-developed with Janine Tiffe and Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis. Portland, OR: Music Workshop.
2021. * “Traditional Music from Africa: Part 2.” Co-developed with Janine Tiffe and Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis. Portland, OR: Music Workshop.
2021. * “Traditional Music from Africa: Part 1.” Co-developed with Janine Tiffe and Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis. Portland, OR: Music Workshop.
Film
2020 Fall * Drum Making as a Way of Life in Southern Uganda. Documentary film, 50 Minutes, and Luganda with English Subtitles. New York, NY: Alexander Street Press.
Journal Articles
2022 * “Foreword” In African Music in Europe. Edited by Linda Cimardi. Special Issue of Ethnomusicology Forum 31(3): 323-325.
2014 * “Could Afrigo’s Semadongo be Uganda’s Zilizopendwa?” In Zili(zo)pendwa: Dance Music and Nostalgia in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. Edited by Frank Gunderson. Special Issue of World of Music (new series) 3(1).
2015 * “Middlebury College 2013-14 John Hamilton Fulton Lecture in the Liberal Arts: A Public Conversation with Angelique Kidjo, conducted and transcribed by Damascus Kafumbe,” African Music 9(4):36-53.
Book Chapters
2024 * “Punishment and Forgiveness: Justice in Kiganda Court Song.” In Ubuntu: A Comparative Study of an African Concept of Justice. Edited by Paul Nnodim and Austin Okigbo. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press.
2022 * “Drum Making as a Way of Life in South-Central Uganda: A Filmic Approach.” In Music, Sound, and Documentary Film in the Global South. Edited by Christopher Ballengee. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Encyclopedia Entries
2022 * “East and Central African Music.” In Music: The Definitive Visual History (DK Smithsonian), 364-365. London, UK: Dorling Kindersley.
2022 * “West and Southern African Music.” In Music: The Definitive Visual History (DK Smithsonian), 366-367. London, UK: Dorling Kindersley.
2022 * “Rebel Music.” In Music: The Definitive Visual History (DK Smithsonian), 332-333. London, UK: Dorling Kindersley.
2022 * “African Instruments.” In Music: The Definitive Visual History (DK Smithsonian), 366-367. London, UK: Dorling Kindersley.
2022 * “Time for Change.” In Music: The Definitive Visual History (DK Smithsonian), 332-333. London, UK: Dorling Kindersley.
Book Reviews
2013 * Ethnomusicology in East: Africa Perspectives from Uganda and Beyond. Edited by Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza and Thomas Solomon. Yearbook for Traditional Music, 2013: 45.
2014 * West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities: An Ethnomusicological Perspective. George Worlasi Kwasi Dor. African Music 9(4):152-154.
Conference Report
Fall 2023 * “The 47th International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance World Conference.” Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, 20(1): 145-150.
Multimedia Review
- * “Multimedia Project Review: GuluSoundTracks.” Review in the Digital Humanities 2, 8.
Film Review
2013 * War Dance by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine. Ethnomusicology, 57 (1).
EPs
Winter 2022 * Think of Such Things. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Winter 2022 * Armor of God. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Fall 2022 * Blessed. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Fall 2021 * To Us a Child is Born. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Summer 2021 * The Bread of Life. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Winter 2021 * Kiganda Idioms: Courageous Overcoming. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Winter 2021 * Kiganda Idioms: Deliberation. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Winter 2021 * Kiganda Idioms: Tomorrow May Never Come. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Fall 2020 * Kiganda Idioms: Leading in Love. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Fall 2020 * Kiganda Idioms: New Beginnings. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Fall 2020 * Together in Difference: Recasting Ugandan Soundscapes. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Fall 2019 * Teach Me to Love – Remixes. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Fall 2019 * Teach Me to Love. Audio EP and liner notes. Bandcamp and CD Baby.
Summer 2013 * Hassan Rehani Bitchuka and Damascus Kafumbe, with Orchestra Rhumba Kali: Sasa Nifanye Nini? (“What am I to Do?”). Datatone Records.
Fall 2012 * “Njagala Nkwagale” (“I Want to Love You”). In World Music: Traditions and Transformations, second edition, 2012. Compiled by Michael B. Bakan. New York: McGraw-Hill/Sony BMG.
Single Releases
Fall 2021 * “11 Minutes with God.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “17 Minutes with God.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Do Not Fear.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Holy is the Lord Almighty.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Joy of the Redeemed – Isiah 35.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Music for Prayer, Worship, and Meditation.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “One Hour with the Holy Spirit.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Psalm 139.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Psalm 22.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “See First His Kingdom.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “The Bread of Life.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “The Way and the Truth and the Life.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Unless the Lord Builds the House.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “You Fill Me with Joy.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “You Turned My Waiting into Dancing.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Your Consolation Brought Me Joy.” Single Release. YouTube.
Fall 2021 * “Your Goodness and Love Will Follow Me.” Single Release. YouTube.
Liner Notes
Fall 2014 * Ugandan Suite by Felipe Salles. Tapestry Records.
Fall 2013 * Volume 22: Katonda Tumusinzenga by Moses Motovu and the Afrigo Band. The Afrigo Band.
Presentations
Papers at Conferences
Fall 2023 * “Co-Creating a Model for Sustainable Drum Making in Uganda.” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada.
Fall 2023 * “Co-Creating a Model for Sustainable Drum Making in Uganda.” Presented at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Fall 2020 * “African Music Documentary: Screenings and Conversations with Filmmakers” Presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, virtual.
Fall 2020 * “The Drum’s Vulnerable Life: Instrument Making, Environmental Challenges, and Conservation Policy in Southern Uganda.” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, virtual.
Summer 2021 * “Punishment and Forgiveness: Justice in Kiganda Court Song.” Presented at the Ubuntu – A Comparative Study of an African Concept of Justice Interdisciplinary Conference (organized by the University of Colorado Boulder and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts), virtual.
Fall 2019 * “‘Agreements’: Political Philosophy in the Songs of Deziderio Ssaalongo Kiwanuka Matovu (1925-2015).” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Bloomington, IN.
Fall 2019 * “‘Agreements’: Political Philosophy in the Songs of Deziderio Ssaalongo Kiwanuka Matovu (1925-2015).” Presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Summer 2019 * “Kabaka Muteesa II’s Musicians as Creative Intellectuals: Music History and Decolonization in Buganda.” Presented at the International Council for Traditional Music World Conference, Bangkok, Thailand.
Fall 2018 * “Royalist Performers as Intellectuals: The Untold Story of Music and Politics in Buganda.” Presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
Fall 2017 * “Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Music, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda.” Presented at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
Fall 2017 * “Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Music, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda.” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.
Summer 2017 * Musical Performance, Inter-Clan Repatriation, and Oral History in Buganda.” Presented at the 44th International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) World Conference in Limerick, Ireland.
Fall 2016 * “Innovating Ugandan Music on the Global Stage: A Case Study of Herbert Kinobe’s Work.” Presented at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Fall 2015 * “Musical Performance, Civil War, and Nostalgia in Northern Uganda.” Presented at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Fall 2015 * “Ethnomusicological Perspectives on the Nile Project: Musical Collaboration as Transnational Cooperation.” Presented at the 10th Anniversary of the African Cultural Calabash and the 1st International Council for Traditional Music African (ICTM) Musics Study Group Symposium, Durban, South Africa.
Summer 2015 * “Notating Musical Texts of the Kawuugulu Clan-Royal Ensemble of Buganda, Uganda.” Presented at the 43rd International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) World Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan.
Spring 2015 * “Music and Dance: A Weapon against Civil War in Uganda.” Presented at the Inaugural Africa Conference at Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), Monterey, CA.
Fall 2014 * “Returning the Musical Treasures of My Mother’s Clan: Repatriation and Kinship in Buganda.” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
Summer 2014 * “The Place of African Performing Arts in and beyond the Academy.” Presented at the 8th African Theatre Association (AfTA) International Conference, Accra, Ghana.
Fall 2014 * “The Place of African Musical Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts Academy: Reflections by Middlebury
College Students.” Presented at the North American Subsection of the African Music Study Group of the International Council for Traditional Music (NASAMSG-ICTM) Inaugural Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA.
Fall 2013 * “Drums, Kings, and Oral History in Buganda.” Presented at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.
Fall 2013 * “Musical Regalia, Kingship, and Oral History in Buganda, Uganda.” Presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting. Indianapolis, IN.
Summer 2013 * “Sifting the Past: Ganda Politics in Kawuugulu Clan- and Royal-based Musical Performances.” Presented at the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) World Conference, Shanghai, China.
Fall 2012. “Afrigo Music: The Zili(zo)pendwa of Uganda.” Presented at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Panels Chaired
Spring 2022 * “Musical Meaning in Global Spaces.” Chaired at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, virtual.
Fall 2020 * “The World of ‘Afrobeats:’ Globalization, Industry, and the Politics of Naming.” Chaired at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, virtual.
Fall 2019 * “Musicians as Mediators, Culture Bearers, and Catalysts for Change in Africa.” Chaired at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.
Fall 2018 * “Agency and Empowerment: Musical Performance and Political Action in Transnational Spaces.” Chaired at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
Spring 2017 * “Influences and Intersections: The Relations of Nations.” Chaired at the Middlebury Annual Spring Student Symposium, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2016 * “Musics of Africa.” Chaired at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Fall 2015 * “Transnational Diasporic Cultures.” Chaired at the 10th Anniversary of the African Cultural Calabash and the 1st International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) African Musics Study Group Symposium, Durban, South Africa.
Fall 2014 * “African Music at the University of Pittsburgh.” Chaired at the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
Summer 2014 * “Researching African and African Diaspora Theatre and Performance: Emerging/Shifting Theories.” Chaired at the 8th African Theatre Association (AfTA) International Conference, Accra, Ghana.
Spring 2014 * “Conduits of Comprehension: Conveying the Broad Subject of African and Diasporic African Music to a Wide Variety of Learners.” Chaired at the North American Subsection of the African Music Study Group of the International Council for Traditional Music (NASAMSG-ICTM) Inaugural Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA.
Spring 2014 * “Re-envisioning African Musics.” Chaired at Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting, Norton, MA.
Fall 2013 * “Music and Lifecycle: Birth, Adolescence, Death.” Chaired at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
Spring 2013 * “Working with Musicians: The 2013 Middlebury Residency of Ugandan Performer Samuel Bakkabulindi and Musical Repatriation in Venezuela.” Chaired at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting, Brunswick, ME.
Spring 2012 * “Musicultural Cross-pollinations and Adaptations.” Chaired at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting, Medford, MA.
Panels Discussed
Fall 2022 * “Examining Aural Collectivity in Contemporary Uganda.” Discussed at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Fall 2022 * “Examining Aural Collectivity in Contemporary Uganda.” Discussed at the African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Roundtable Discussions
Fall 2023 * “Tell Me a Story: The Hunter of White Ants.” Presenter. Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada.
Fall 2019 * “Writing Ethnomusicology: The Books We Create and How They Come to Be.” Chair. Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Bloomington, IN.
Spring 2018 * “Middlebury Institute Author’s Hour. Interviewee with Pamela Jungerberg on Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Musical Performance, Politics, and Storytelling in Uganda, Monterey, CA.
Spring 2018 * “Arts and Traditional African Practices.” Faculty moderator. Middlebury’s UMOJA AMKA Conference, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2018 * “Music, Dance & Storytelling.” Faculty moderator. Sponsored by the Middlebury Student Government Association (SGA) (organized as part of the Taste of the World series), Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2016 * “The Pressures and Opportunities of Being a Native Ethnomusicologist.” Presenter. Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Fall 2015 * “Teaching and Performing African Music in the Context of My Scholarship.” Presenter. Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.
Fall 2015 * “Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Experience in Jos, Nigeria.” Presenter. African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Spring 2014 * “Professional Trajectories in Ethnomusicology” (President’s Roundtable). Presenter. Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting, Norton, MA.
Spring 2014 * Middlebury Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research (CTLR) roundtable discussion about college-wide learning goals. Participant. Middlebury, TV.
Spring 2014 * “Re-branding African Performing Arts.” Presenter. Middlebury’s UMOJA AMKA Conference at Middlebury, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2013 * Middlebury John Hamilton Fulton Memorial Lecturer in the Liberal Arts. Co-presenter with artist and activist Angelique Kidjo, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2012 * “Dealing with Violence in the Research Site” (sponsored by the African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology). Presenter. Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Fall 2012 * “One Work from Two Traditions.” Co-presenter. Middlebury Nicholas R. Clifford Annual Symposium, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2012 * “William Grant Still, the Dean of African American Composers.” Presenter. Sponsored by the Middlebury Center of the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) lecture series, Middlebury, VT.
Invited Lectures and Lecture Demonstrations
Winter 2024 * “Court Song, Meaning, and Power Relations in Uganda.” Presented at Williams College, Williamstown, MA.
Winter 2023 * “Community Building in Ugandan Music.” Presented at Worcester State University, Worcester, MA.
Fall 2021 * “‘Gganga Survived Narrowly’: Punishment and Forgiveness in Kiganda Royalist Song.” Presented at the Boston University African Studies Center as part of the Walter Rodney Seminar Series, virtual.
Spring 2021 * “Drum Making as a Way of Life in Southern Uganda.” Presented at University of Lincoln, UK, virtual.
Winter 2021 * “Research and Professional Development in Musicology.” Presented in doctoral seminar at Florida State University, virtual.
Fall 2020 * “Music and Society in Uganda.” Lectured demonstration given at University of Lincoln, UK, virtual.
Summer 2020 * “Experiences, Approaches, and Priorities in World Music.” Presented in a Florida State University graduate seminar on world Music pedagogy, virtual.
Winter 2020 * “Recording and Remixing ‘Teach Me to Love’: Musical, Cultural, and Temporal Paradoxes in My Music.” Presented at the Middlebury College Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs as part of the International and Global Studies Colloquium.
Spring 2020 * “Drum Making as a Way of Life in Southern Uganda.” Presented as part of the Middlebury College Virtual Faculty at Home Webinar Series, virtual.
Fall 2019 * “Tuning the Kingdom: Musical Performance, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda.” Book talk given in a Florida State University doctoral ethnomusicology seminar, virtual.
Fall 2019 * “Music as a Social Contract.” Lecture demonstration given at Elderly Services, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2019 * “Music as Verb.” Lecture demonstration given at the Cold Hollow Sculpture Park. Enosburg, VT.
Spring 2019 * “Music and Its Sociopolitical Relevance in Uganda.” Interactive presentation featuring stories given at Elderly Services, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2018 * “Music and Political Organization in Uganda.” Presented in a Middlebury College first-year seminar on singing communities (FYSE 1347), Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2018 * “Music, Dance & Storytelling.” Invited talk co-presented at the Middlebury College Student Government Association as part of the Taste of the World Series, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2018 * “Music, Politics, and Storytelling in Uganda.” Invited presentation given at the Clemmons Family Farm as part of the Clemmons Family Farm Lecture Series, Charlotte, VT.
Summer 2018 * “Music, Politics, and Storytelling in Uganda.” Invited talk given at the Uganda Museum, Kampala, Uganda.
Summer 2018 * “Music, Politics, and Storytelling in Uganda.” Book talk presented at the Uganda Museum, Kampala, Uganda.
Spring 2018 * “Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Musical Performance, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda.” Book talk presented at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, CA.
Fall 2017 * “Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Music, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda.” Presented at the Clemmons Family Farm as part of the Vermont Humanities Speakers’ Series, Charlotte, VT.
Summer 2015 * “What I Have Learned about Teaching Music.” Presented at the University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria.
Fall 2014 * Pre-concert lecture for Felipe Salles’s Ugandan Suite performance, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2014 * Pre-concert lecture for Felipe Salles’s Ugandan Suite performance, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA.
Winter 2013 * “Sound, Movement, and Ethnicity in Uganda.” Co-presented with percussionist Samuel Bakkabulindi at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2012 * “Musical Performance as Social Performance in Uganda.” Lecture demonstration given at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
Fall 2011 * “Musical Modes and Scales beyond the Western Classical Music System.” Presented in a music history class at Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
Creative Work
Commissioned Works
Fall 2012 * “Omwenge mu Maka” (“Alcoholism in a Home”). Commissioned by the Middlebury College
Choir and performed during the Nicholas R. Clifford Annual Symposium, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2012 * “Omwenge: Suite for Woodwinds (Clarinet, Piccolo, Saxophone, and Bassoon).” Commissioned by the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble and performed during the ensemble’s twenty-fifth season performance series, Burlington and Montpelier, VT.
Guest Studio Recording Sessions
Summer 2013 * Multi-instrumentalist and co-producer for Ugandan Suite by Felipe Salles. Wellspring Sound Studio, Action, MA.
Summer 2012 * Multi-instrument and producer for Hassan Rehani Bitchuka and Damascus Kafumbe, with Orchestra Rhumba Kali: Sasa Nifanye Nini? (“What am I to Do?”). Tallahassee, FL.
Compositions for the Middlebury Afropop Band Concerts
Fall 2022 * “Midnight Thoughts” – composed for band.
Fall 2022, Spring 2022 * “I Dream of a Better World” – composed for band.
Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022 * “Mu Afrika” / “In Africa” – composed for band.
Spring 2022 * “Nsazeewo” / I Have Decided) – composed for band.
Fall 2019 * “Akaguwa k’Essuubi” / “A String of Hope” – composited for band.
Spring 2023, Fall 2019 * “I Dream of a Better World” – composed for band.
Arrangements for the Middlebury Afropop Band Concerts
Fall 2023 * “Smooth Operator” (comp. Sade) – arranged for band.
Fall 2023 * “Johnny B. Goode” (comp. Peter Tosh) – arranged for band.
Fall 2023 * “Alone” (comp. Burna Boy) – arranged for band.
Fall 2023 * “Jump” (comp. Rupee) – arranged for band.
Fall 2023, Spring 2023 * “Love and Death” (comp. Ebo Taylor) – arranged for band.
Spring 2023 * “Victory” (comp. Ebo Taylor and Uhuru Yenzu) – arranged for band.
Fall 2023, Spring 2023 * “Waiting in Vain” (comp. Bob Marley) – arranged for band.
Fall 2023, Spring 2023 * “Water No Get Enemy” (comp. Fela Kuti) – arranged for band.
Fall 2023, Spring 2023 * “Afrique Victime” (comp. Mdou Moctar) – arranged for band.
Spring 2023 * “Wonamati” (comp. Joe Driscoll and Sekou Kouyate) – arranged for band.
Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022 * “Zombie” (comp. Fela Kuti)
Fall 2022 * “Iemanja” (comp. Angélique Kidjo) – arranged for band.
Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2019 * “Malaika” (comp. Fadhili William & Adam Salim) – arranged for band.
Spring 2023, Spring 2022 * “Tumba” (comp. Angélique Kidjo) – arranged for band.
Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2019 *“Malaika” (comp. Fadhili William & Adam Salim) – arranged for band.
Spring 2021 * “Imegi” (comp. Judikay) – arranged for band.
Spring 2021 * “Nelson Mandela” (comp. Youssou N’Dour) – arranged for band.
Spring 2019 * “Imegi” (“comp. Judikay) – arranged for band.
Spring 2019 * “Nelson Mandela” (comp. Youssou N’Dour) – arranged for band.
Fall 2019 * “Moul Koutchi” (Moroccan traditional piece) – arranged for band.
Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2019 * “Overtake Don Overtake” Overtake (comp. Fela Kuti) – arranged for band.
Fall 2019 * “Yemaya” (comp. Fatoumata Diawara & Roberto Fonseca) – arranged for band.
Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2019 * “Yesu Ni Wangu” (East African Gospel Song) – arranged for band.
Compositions for the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble Concerts
Fall 2023 * “Upendo” / “Love”– composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, shakers, voices, and bass.
Spring 2023 * “Essuubi” / “Hope” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophones, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, voices, and bass.
Spring 2022 * “Leeta” / “Bring” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophones, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, voices, and bass.
Fall 2021 * “Essaawa” / Time” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophone, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, voices, and bass.
Fall 2019 * “Akaguwa k’Essuubi” / “A String of Hope” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophones, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, cobbler shaker, voices, and bass.
Spring 2018 * “Mpe” / “Give Him/Her” – composed for bow-harp, thumb-piano, bowl-lyre, drums, and bass.
Spring 2018 * “Omwana Omulungi” / “A Good Child” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – composed for bow-harps and voices.
Fall 2017 * “Upendo” / “Love” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, cobbler shakers, voices, and bass.
Spring 2017 * “Upendo” / “Love”– composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, shakers, voices, and bass.
Fall 2016 * “Singa Nnalina” / “If I Had” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophones, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, cobbler shaker, voices, and bass.
Spring 2015 * “Essaawa”/ “Time” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophones, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, cobbler shaker, voices, and bass.
Fall 2014 * “Baasunanga Endongo” / “They Used to Play Music” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophones, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, gourd shakers, voices, and bass.
Fall 2013 * Okwagala / “Love” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophone, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, voices, and bass.
Spring 2013 * Kano Akanyonyi / “This Small Bird” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophones, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, voices, and bass.
Spring 2013 * “Kata” / “Play” – composed for drums.
Fall 2012 * “Omwana Omulungi” / “A Good Child” – composed for bow-harp and voice.
Fall 2012 * “Sekitulege” / “Sekitulege” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophone, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, voices, and bass.
Spring 2012 * “Ka Ng’ende? / “Let Me Go” – composed for thumb-pianos and voices.
Spring 2012 * “Maama Yampa” / “Mother Gave Me” – composed for drums, gourd shakers, and voices.
Spring 2012 * “Twali Twebuuza” / “We Were Asking Ourselves”– composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophone, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, voices, and bass.
Fall 2011 * “Abagenyi Mwebale” / “Thank You, Guests” – composed for thumb pianos and voices.
Fall 2011 * “Tukuba” / “We are Playing” – composed for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, xylophone, tube-fiddles, bowl-lyres, drums, voices, and bass.
Arrangements for the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble Concerts
Fall 2023 * “Agawuluguma e Nnyanja” / “Those [Waves] that Roar in the Lake” (Ugandan folk song) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2023 * “Enguuli / “Crude Beer” (Ugandan folk song) – arranged for bowl-lyre, tube-fiddle, and voices.
Fall 2023 * “Gganga Alula” / “Gganga Had a Narrow Escape” (Ugandan folksong) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2023 * “Agoliam Ka” / “The Beloved One” (Ugandan folksong) – arranged for bow-harp, thumb-pianos, and voices.
Fall 2023 * “Ugandan Dance Medley” (Ugandan folk dances–baakisimba, imbalu, ntogoro, larakaraka, & kizino) – choreographed for ensemble.
Spring 2023 * “Sematimba ne Kikwabanga” / “Sematimba and Kikwabanga” (royal court song from south-central Uganda) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Spring 2023 * “Enguuli / “Crude Beer” (beer song from south-central Uganda) – arranged for bowl-lyre and voice.
Spring 2023 * “Kasolo Muje” / “Small Animal Muje” (animal song from south-central Uganda) – arranged for tube-fiddle and voice.
Spring 2023 * “Emaali / “Money” (money song from south-central Uganda) – arranged for thumb-piano and voice.
Spring 2023 * “(A)julina” / “Julina” (love song from south-central Uganda) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Spring 2023 * “Gganga Alula” / “Gganga Had a Narrow Escape” (royal court song from south-central Uganda) – arranged for xylophone and voice.
Spring 2023 * “Zoogedde” / “They Have Spoken” (drum song from south-central Uganda) – arranged for drums and voices.
Spring 2023 * “Ugandan Dance Medley” (baakisimba, imbalu, ntogoro, larakaraka, & kizino dances from Uganda) – choreographed for ensemble.
Spring 2022 * “Sematimba ne Kikwabanga” / “Sematimba and Kikwabanga” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Spring 2022 * “Emaali” / “Money” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, and voices.
Spring 2022 * “Enguuli” / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres, tube-fiddles, and voices.
Spring 2022 * “Gganga Alula” / “Gganga Had a Narrow Escape” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones and voices.
Spring 2022 * “Ekidigida / “Groove” (neotraditional Ugandan drumming) – arranged for ensemble.
Spring 2022 * “Ugandan Dance Medley” (traditional Ugandan dances) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2021 * “Agawuluguma e Nnyanja” / “[Waves] that Roar in the Lake” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2021 * “Ajulina” / “Julina” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Fall 2021 * “Akasolo Muje” / “The Small Animal Muje” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Fall 2021 * “Ekidigida” / “Groove” (neotraditional Ugandan drumming) – arranged for ensemble.
Fall 2021 * “Musiibye Mutya / “How Has Your Day Been?” (traditional Ugandan song/tune – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Fall 2021 * “Ngalo Bikuggu” / “Useless Fingers” or “Gganga Alula” / “Gganga Had a Narrow Escape” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones and voices.
Fall 2021 * “Serukeera” / “Serukeera” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles & voices.
Fall 2021 * “Ugandan Dance Medley” (traditional Ugandan dances) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2021 * “Zoogedde” / “They Have Spoken” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for drums and voices.
Fall 2019 * “Agawuluguma e Nnyanja” / “[Things] that Roar in the Lake”) (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2019 * “Agoliam Ka” / “The Beloved One” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, and voices.
Fall 2019 * “Drum Improvisation” (traditional Ugandan drum idioms) – arranged for ensemble.
Fall 2019 * “Enguuli” / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres, tube-fiddles, and voices.
Fall 2019 * “Ngalo Bikuggu” / “Useless Fingers” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2019 * “Ugandan Dance Medley” (traditional Ugandan dances) – choreographed for ensemble.
Spring 2018 * “Agoliam Ka” / “The Beloved One” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Spring 2018 * “[Ugandan] Dance Medley” (traditional Ugandan dances) – choreographed for ensemble.
Spring 2018 * “[Ugandan] Drum Medley” (traditional Ugandan drum idioms) – arranged for ensemble.
Spring 2018 * “Gganga Alula” / “Gganga Had a Narrow Escape” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Spring 2018 * “Musiibye Mutya?” / “How Has Your Day Been?” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Fall 2017 * “Ajulina / “Julina” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Fall 2017 * “Akasolo Muje” / “The Small Animal Muje” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Fall 2017 * “Ekidigida” / “Groove” (neotraditional Ugandan drumming) – arranged for ensemble.
Fall 2017 * “Emaali / “Money” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Fall 2017 * “Enguuli / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres & voices.
Fall 2017 * “Gganga Alula” / “Gganga Had a Narrow Escape” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones and voices.
Fall 2017 * “Larakaraka dance music (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2017 * “Sematimba ne Kikwabanga” (Sematimba and Kikwabanga”) (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2017 * “Zoogedde” / “They Have Spoken” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for drums and voices.
Spring 2017 * “Agoliam Ka” / “The Beloved One” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Spring 2017 * “Akasolo Muje” / “The Small Animal Muje” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Spring 2017 * “Ekidigida” / “Groove” (neotraditional Ugandan drumming) – arranged for ensemble.
Spring 2017 * “Kizino (traditional Ugandan dance) – choreographed for ensemble.
Spring 2017 * “Musiibye Mutya?” / “How Has Your Day Been?” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Spring 2017 * “Ngalo Bikuggu” / “Useless Fingers” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Spring 2017 * “Serukeera” / “Serukeera” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Spring 2017 * “Zoogedde” / “They Have Spoken” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for drums and voices.
Fall 2016 * “Agawuluguma e Nnyanja” / “[Waves] that Roar in the Lake” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2016 * “Ajulina” / “Julina” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Fall 2016 * “Akasolo Muje” / “The Small Animal Muje” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Fall 2016 * “Emaali / “Money” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Fall 2016 * “Enguuli” / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Fall 2016 * “Ssematimba ne Kikwabanga” / “Ssematimba and Kikwabanga” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2016 * “Ugandan Dance Medley” (traditional Ugandan dance) – choreographed for ensemble.
Spring 2015 * “Agawuluguma e Nnyanja” / “[Waves] that Roar in the Lake” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Spring 2015 * “Agoliam Ka / “The Beloved One” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps, thumb-pianos, cobbler shaker, and voices.
Spring 2015 * “Musiibye Mutya?” / “How Has Your Day Been?” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres, tube-fiddles, and voices.
Spring 2015 * “Ngalo Bikuggu / “Useless Fingers”) (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones and voices.
Spring 2015 * “Runyege-Ntogoro” (traditional Ugandan dances) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2014 * “Ajulina” / “Julina” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Fall 2014 * “Akasolo Muje” / “The Small Animal Muje” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Fall 2014 * “Emaali” / “Money” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Fall 2014 * “Enguuli” / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Fall 2014 * “Gganga Alula” / “Gganga Had a Narrow Escape” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Fall 2014 * “Larakaraka” (traditional Ugandan dance) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2014 * “Zoogedde” / “They Have Spoken” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for drums and voices.
Fall 2013 * “Agawuluguma e Nnyanja” / “[Waves] That Roar in the Lake”) (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voice.
Fall 2013 * “Ajulina” / “Ajulina” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Fall 2013 * “Emaali” / “Money” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Fall 2013 * “Guluma” / “It Hurts” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Fall 2013 * “Larakaraka” (traditional Ugandan dance) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2013 * “Musiibye Mutya?” / “How Has Your Day Been?” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Fall 2013 * “Olutalo lw’e Nsiisi” / “The Battle at Nsinsi” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for drums, xylophones, and voices.
Spring 2013 * “Abagenyi Mwebale” / “Thank You, Guests” (traditional Ugandan song/tune – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Spring 2013 * “Enguuli” / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Spring 2013 * “Kizino” (traditional Ugandan dance) – choreographed for ensemble.
Spring 2013 * “Omusango gw’Abalere” / “The Flutists’ Case” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones, drums, and voices.
Spring 2013 * “Otwenge” / “Elbow” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Spring 2013 * “Sematimba ne Kikwabanga” / “Sematimba and Kikwabanga” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones and voices.
Spring 2013 * “Serukeera” / “Serukeera” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Fall 2012 * “Baakisimba” (traditional Ugandan dance) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2012 * “Enguuli” / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for thumb-pianos and voices.
Fall 2012 * “Ennyana Ekutudde” / “A Calf Has Escaped” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for drums, xylophones, and voices.
Fall 2012 * “Ensimbi” / “Money” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Fall 2012 * “Omugongo Guluma” / “The Back Hurts” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Fall 2012 * “Ssematimba ne Kikwabanga” / “Ssematimba and Kikwabanga” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones and drums.
Spring 2012 * “Aida” / “Aida” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Spring 2012 * “Enguuli” / “Crude Beer” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres and voices.
Spring 2012 * “Olutalo lw’e Nsiisi” / “The Battle at Nsinsi” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for xylophones and voices.
Spring 2012 * “Omugongo Guluma” / “The Back Hurts” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube-fiddles and voices.
Spring 2012 * “Runyege-Ntogoro” (traditional Ugandan dances) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2011 * “Kasolo Muje” / “Little Animal Muje” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for tube fiddles and voices.
Fall 2011 * “Kizino” (traditional Ugandan dance) – choreographed for ensemble.
Fall 2011 * “Musiibye Mutya No?” / “How Was Your Day?” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bowl-lyres.
Fall 2011 * “Otwenge” / “Elbow” (neotraditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for bow-harps and voices.
Fall 2011 * “Ssematimba ne Kikwabanga” / “Ssematimba and Kikwabanga” (traditional Ugandan song/tune) – arranged for drums, xylophones, and voices.
East African Music Workshops and/or Lecture Demonstrations
Fall 2018 * Stone Academy, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Fine Arts Center, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Northwest Middle, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Southside High School, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Bethel Elementary, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Wade Hampton High School, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Bryson Elementary, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Welcome Academy, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Hollis Academy, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Carolina Museum, Greensville, SC.
Spring 2018 * Middlebury Institute, Monterey, CA.
Fall 2016 * Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, PA.
Winter 2015 * Mary Hogan Elementary School, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2014 * Ripton Elementary School, Ripton, VT.
Winter 2013 * Middlebury College (co-led with Samuel Bakkabulindi) at Middlebury, VT.
Concerts/Performances
Fall 2023 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble and Middlebury Afropop Band, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2023 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble and Middlebury Afropop Band, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2022 * Performance with the Middlebury Afropop Band, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2023 * Guest performer at the Middlebury Fall 2022 Convocation, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2023 * Guest performer at the Middlebury Winter 2023 Convocation, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2022 * Performer at the Raquel Albarran (1983 – 2022) Memorial Service, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2022 * Guest performer at the Middlebury Fall 2022 Convocation, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2022 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble and Middlebury Afropop Band, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2021 * Guest performer at the Middlebury 2021 Convocation, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2021 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble and Middlebury Afropop Band, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2021 * Guest performer at the Music Workshop Inspire Live: Music from Africa Course Launch Party, virtual.
Spring 2021 * Performance with the Middlebury Afropop Band, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2019 * Guest performer with the Middlebury Afropop Band at the Middlebury College Activities Board Student Picnic, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2019 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble and Middlebury Afropop Band, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2019 * Guest performer with the Middlebury Community Chorus, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2019 * Guest performer with the Middlebury College Choir, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Stone Academy, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at the Fine Arts Center, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Northwest Middle, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Southside High School, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Bethel Elementary, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Wade Hampton High School, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Bryson Elementary, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Welcome Academy, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Hollis Academy, Greensville, SC.
Fall 2018 * Guest performer at Carolina Museum, Greensville, SC.
Spring 2018 * Guest performer, Middlebury Baccalaureate Service.
Spring 2018 * Guest performer at the Middlebury Institute, Monterey, CA.
Spring 2018 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2018 * Guest performer in Short Circuits (a program of improvised and electronic pieces by music faculty and students, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2018 * Guest performer at the Middlebury Congregational Church.
Fall 2017 * Guest performer at the Congregational Church in Middlebury.
Fall 2017 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2017 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2016 * Guest performer at the Painted Bridge Arts Center in Philadelphia, PA.
Fall 2016 * Guest performer at the Middlebury Opening Convocation, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2016 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2015 * Guest performer at President Laurie L. Patton’s inauguration at Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2015 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2015 * Guest performer with Ugandan artist Kinobe at Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2014 * Guest performer with the Felipe Salles Group at Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2014 * Guest performer with the Felipe Salles Group at University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA.
Fall 2014 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Summer 2014 * Guest performer with Kinobe and the Wamu Spirit, Harbourfront Festival, Toronto, ON.
Fall 2013 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Summer 2013 * Guest performer with the Felipe Salles Group at Ryles Jazz Café, Cambridge, MA.
Spring 2013 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2013 * Guest performer at the Martin Luther King annual celebration at Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2013 * Guest performer with Ugandan percussionist Samuel Bakkabulindi at the Mary Hogan Elementary School, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2013 * Guest performer with Ugandan percussionist Samuel Bakkabulindi at Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2012 * Performer with the Afrotet Band during the visit of 14th Dalai Lama at Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2012 * Performer with the Afrotet Band at 51 Main, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2012 * Guest performer with the Vermont Chamber Music Ensemble at the Flynn Space, Burlington, VT.
Fall 2012 * Guest performer with the Vermont Chamber Music Ensemble. Unitarian Church, Montpelier, VT.
Fall 2012 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2012 * Performer with the Afrotet Band at 51 Main, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2012 * Performer with the Afrotet Band at 51 Main, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2012 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2012 * Performer with the Afrotet Band at 51 Main, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2012 * Performer with the Afrotet Band at 51 Main, Middlebury, VT.
Winter 2012 * Guest performer at the Congregational Church, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2011 * Performer with the Afrotet Band at 51 Main, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2011 * Guest performer at the Middlebury Affiliate Faculty Concert, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2011 * Guest performer with the Afrotet Band at 51 Main, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2011 * Performance with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, Middlebury, VT.
Other Faculty Development Engagements
Summer 2023 * Participation in the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance World Conference, Accra, Ghana.
Summer 2022 * Fieldwork in Uganda.
Fall 2019 * Fieldwork in Uganda.
Fall 2019 * Summer study abroad course development, Uganda.
Summer 2019 * Participant, June Forum (hosted by the Center for Entrepreneurship).
Summer 2018 * Participant, June Forum (hosted by the Center for Entrepreneurship).
Summer 2018 * Fieldwork in Uganda.
Fall 2015 * Fieldwork in Uganda.
Summer 2014 * Fieldwork in Uganda.
Summer 2013 * Fieldwork in Uganda.
Summer 2012 * Fieldwork in Uganda.
SERVICE
Institutional Service
2022-2024 & 2025-2026 * Chair, Department of Music.
Fall 2021 * Guest performer at the Middlebury 2021 Convocation, Middlebury, VT.
Spring 2021 * Faculty escort for honorary degree recipient and commencement speaker Anais Mitchell ’04 during commencement.
Fall 2020-Present * Faculty Advisor for UMOJA (Middlebury’s African Student’s Organization)
Fall 2020-Summer 2023 * 3 Black Studies Search Committees (appointed).
Spring 2020-Summer 2020 * [Covid-2019] Academic Planning Group (appointed).
Spring 2019 * Faculty Marshal for commencement.
Fall 2019-Spring 2020 * Program Track Head/Director, African Studies Program (appointed).
Fall 2019-Spring 2020 * IGS Steering Committee (appointed).
Fall 2019-Spring 2020 * Midd in Africa Initiative Committee (appointed).
Fall 2019-Summer 2023 * Black Studies Steering Committee (appointed).
Spring 2018 * Guest performer, Middlebury Baccalaureate Service.
Spring 2018 * Co-sponsor, First Year Seminar Advisee Mentoring Sessions.
Spring 2018 * Cameroon School site visit.
Spring 2018 * Presenter on Middlebury’s transformational goal.
Fall 2017-2018 * Faculty Advisory Board for the Cameroon School in Yaoundé (appointed).
Spring 2018 * 1-Year Sabbatical Replacement Ethnomusicology Search Committee (appointed).
Fall 2017-Spring 2021 * Faculty Strategy Committee (elected).
Spring 2017 * Faculty escort for honorary degree recipient Grace Potter during commencement.
Spring 2017 * Co-author of a Middlebury-MIIS MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program Learning Facilitator grant proposal.
Fall 2016 * Guest performer at the Middlebury Opening Convocation, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2016-Spring 2017 * Writing Steering Committee (appointed).
Fall 2016-Spring 2017 * 2-Year Term Music Theory Search Committee *appointed).
Fall 2016-Spring 2017 * Tenure-Track Writing Search Committee (appointed).
Fall 2013-Spring 2015 * Ad Hoc Assessment Committee (appointed).
Fall 2015 * Guest performer at President Laurie L. Patton’s inauguration at Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2014-Spring 2015 * Watson Fellowship Committee (appointed).
Fall 2014-Present * Faculty Sponsor, Performing Arts Series.
Summer 2014 * Consultant, U.S Department of Education grant to fund Swahili instruction.
Fall 2014-Spring 2015 * Faculty Advisor, INGOMA and Mchaka Mchaka Student Organizations.
Fall 2012-Spring 2013 * Committee on the Arts (CoTA) Music Representative (appointed).
Fall 2013-Spring 2014 * 1-Year Sabbatical Replacement Music Search Committee (appointed).
Fall 2013-Spring 2014 * Co-presenter and co-host of the Nile Project residency at Middlebury.
Spring 2012 * Performer with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble at 3 college events (January 15, January, 30, and April 20).
Fall 2011-Present * Reviewer of Music Auditions, Admissions Office.
Fall 2011-Present * African instrument maintenance.
Professional Service
Activity in Professional Organization
Fall 2023 * External Promotion Reviewer, University of Rochester.
Fall 2023 * External Promotion Reviewer, Grinnell College.
Winter 2022 * External Promotion Reviewer, Worcester State University.
Winter 2022 * External Program Reviewer, College of William & Mary.
Fall 2021 * External Promotion Reviewer, University of California, Davis.
Summer 2021* Chair, Society for Ethnomusicology Deborah Wong Research & Publication Award Committee.
Fall 2020-Spring 2022 * Co-developer of and Advisor for Online K-8 Music from Africa Courses, Music Workshop.
Fall 2020-Present * Editorial Board Member, World Music Textbook.
Fall 2020-Summer 2021 * Founding Member, Musician Advocates for Racial Justice and Intercultural Neurodiversity (MARJIN).
Winter 2020 * External Examiner, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Fall 2019-Spring 2020 * Chair, Society for Ethnomusicology Board Nominating Committee.
Summer 2019 * External Tenure Reviewer, Williams College.
Fall 2014-Present * Founding President, African Performing Arts Initiative (APAIINC).
Spring 2017-Spring 2019 * President, Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM).
Spring 2017 * Local Arrangements Committee Chair, Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM) Annual Meeting, Middlebury, VT.
Fall 2014-Fall 2017 * Co-chair, African and African Diasporic Music Section (AADMS) of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Summer 2014-Present * Co-chair, North American Branch of the International Council for Traditional Music Study Group on African Musics (NAB-ICTM-SGAM).
Summer-Fall 2014 * Program Committee Member, Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Austin, TX.
Spring 2014 * Program Committee member, Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Providence, RI.
Spring 2014-Spring 2015 * Treasurer, Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM).
Spring 2012-Spring 15 * Member-at-large, Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Fall 2012-Spring 2013 * Evaluator, Austrian Science Fund Wittgenstein Award Z 236-G21.
Fall 2012 * Consultant, Museum of Fine Arts.
Fall 2012* Grant Panelist, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.
Board Memberships
Winter 2024-Present * Co-editor, Eastman/Rochester Studies in Ethnomusicology Series (University of Rochester Press).
Fall 2022-Present * Music Book Review Editor, Yearbook for Traditional Music.
Fall 2021-Present * Board Member, Uganda Knowledge Publishing.
Fall 2021-Fall 2023* Secretary and Board Member, Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM).
Fall 2018-Fall 2023 * Editorial Board Member, Ethnomusicology (Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology).
Fall 2015-Fall 2018 * Council Member, Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM).
Fall 2011-Spring 2017 * Editorial Boarder Member, Cultural Analysis.
Fall 2011-Fall 2015 * Board Member, Pabst Charitable Foundation for the Arts.
Summer 2008-Present * Board Member, Voluntary Promoters of Church Music (VPCM).
Professional Activity for Press Manuscripts
Fall 2022 * Article Manuscript Reviewer, History of Africa.
Spring 2022 * Article Manuscript Reviewer, African Studies Review.
Winter 2022 * Article Manuscript Reviewer, Yearbook for Traditional Music.
Fall 2021 * Article Manuscript Reviewer, Visual Culture in Africa.
Spring 2021* Digital Humanities Project Reviewer, Reviews in Digital Humanities.
Spring 2021 * Book Proposal Reviewer, Routledge.
Spring 2021 * Article Manuscript Reviewer, Muziki.
Spring 2021* Book Manuscript Reviewer, Bloomsbury Publishing.
Fall 2020 * Endorsement Quote Author, Illinois University Press.
Fall 2020 * Book Proposal Reviewer, Helsinki University Press (HUP).
Summer 2020 * Book Proposal Reviewer, Routledge.
Spring 2018 * Article Manuscript Reviewer, Nokoko.
Spring 2018 * Endorsement Quote Author, Rowman and Littlefield Press.
Fall 2019 * Article Manuscript Reviewer, MDW Press.
Fall 2019 * Book Proposal Reviewer, Routledge.
Fall 2017 * Book Manuscript Reviewer, Rowman and Littlefield Press.
Fall 2015 * Article Manuscript Reviewer, Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa.
Spring 2015 * Article Manuscript Reviewer, African Music.
Spring 2013 * Article Manuscript Reviewer, Analytical Approaches to World Music.
Community Service
Spring 2021-Summer 2021 * Consultant, Kerubo’s Debut Afro-jazz album Hali Ya Utu.
Fall 2020-Fall 2023 * Chair, Mary Johnson Children’s Center Governance Committee.
Fall 2020-Fall 2023 * Board Member, Mary Johnson Children’s Center.
Fall 2014-Present * Founding Director and Presenter, African Soundscapes Outreach Program.