1985 September 17

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:860678406

Persons

Title

1985 September 17

Origin Information

Event Place	Storrs, CT
Date Created	September 17, 1985
Publisher	University of Connecticut

Parent Item

Adzenyah, Abraham

Resource Type

Audio

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

Edward O'Connor makes several class announcements and answers questions before introducing master drummer Abraham Adzenyah. Mr. Adzenyah speaks about African music in a lecture titled "In Africa music and life are inseparable."

Genre

sound recording

open reel audiotapes

Subject

African Americans

African Americans in popular culture

African American educators

African American dancers

African American musicians

Percussionists

Black Experience in the Arts Course (University of Connecticut) -- Sound recordings

O'Connor, Edward

Smith, Hale, 1925-2009

University of Connecticut

Geographic Subject

Storrs (inhabited place)

Connecticut (state)

Extent

1 reel, 1 side; side A-1:33:55; speed 3¾ IPS; ½-Track Mono; Polyester.

Held By

Archives & Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library

Rights Statement

IN COPYRIGHT

Use and Reproduction

These Materials are provided for educational and research purposes only.

Coordinates

41.8, -72.25

Note

Note Type

biographical/historical

Note

Master drummer Abraham K. Adzenyah was born in 1939 in Gomoa Aboso, Via Agona Swedru, Ghana, West Africa. He served as Adjunct Professor of West African Music, Culture and Dance at Wesleyan University for over forty years, beginning in 1969 after serving as an instructor at the University of Ghana. While maintaining a career as an international performer, Adzenyah instructed performing groups of students on the social/recreational, religious/ceremonial, and warrior musics of Ghana. [https://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/press/press-releases/2016/Abraham-Adzenyah-Celebration.html]

Note	1 open reel, 1 side; Recording run time side A-1:33:55. Run time of the digital recording 1:33:55; 3¾ IPS; ½-Track Mono; Polyester

Note Type	source note
Note	Black Experience in the Arts Collection

Local Identifier

Source identifier: MSS 2015.0002

MSS 2015.0002

2015-0002/RR 99

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