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- Title
Review and Reflections: Music and Dance Traditions of Ghana.
- Authors
Green, Doris
- Abstract
Doris Green is an ethnomusicologist, musician, dancer, certified teacher of Labanotation, and creator of Greenotation, a system for notating the percussion instruments of African ensembles that enables one to notate the music, and align it with the dance movements, creating an integrated score with a conterminous relationship just as it is in Africa. Born in Brooklyn, did her undergraduate and graduate studies at Brooklyn College and New York University respectively. She was a faculty member at Brooklyn College, Teachers College, New York University, New School for Social Research, and Adelphi University. She has received three CUNY Faculty Research Awards, enabling her to teach and conduct research in more than 25 nations in Africa. As the recipient of the Fulbright Award she spent a year teaching her system of notation in Ivory Coast and the Gambia. She is a former US State Department cultural specialist to Ghana where she taught members of the Ghana National Dance Ensemble and students/members of the Noyam Dance Group from the Ghana State Theater how to write dance on the computer (she and her students appeared on national Ghana television demonstrating dance performance). Samples of her work can be found at: http://www.dorisgreen.org/, http://web.me.com/dorisgreen/African_traditions/Welcome.html
- Subjects
MUSIC &; dance; GREEN, Doris; ETHNOMUSICOLOGISTS; LABANOTATION; DANCE notation; PERCUSSION instruments
- Publication
Journal of Pan African Studies, 2012, Vol 5, Issue 1, p235
- ISSN
0888-6601
- Publication type
Article