Event

Ruth Opara

Songs and Female Names in Contemporary Nigeria: A Mother's Prayer or Men's Muse?

January 28, 2025 (Tuesday) — 5:15 PM to 7:00 PM

Lerner Center 101
Penn Music Building
201 S. 34th Street, Room 101

BIO

Ruth Opera is an Assistant Professor of Music at Colombia University. Her research centers on African and African diasporic music and knowledge production. Specifically, music and decolonial discourse, women in music, music and gender, and African music and transnational encounters. As a practitioner, a teacher, and a scholar who has lived and taught on the African continent and the diaspora, Ruth successfully straddles both world’s musical cultures. She is working on her current book on the intersection of music and motherhood.

ATTENDANCE & REGISTRATION

This event is free and open to the public. If you attend in person, there is no need to register. We ask that you join us in person if at all possible, but for those of you who are unable to physically attend we encourage you to participate via Zoom. Please use the link to attend virtually.

ABOUT COLLOQUIUM

This lecture is part of the 2024-25 Penn Music Colloquium Series. The Department of Music's main Colloquium Series showcases new research by leading scholars in music and sound studies and composers both in the United States and internationally.  All Music Colloquia will take place in Room 101 of the Lerner Center on Tuesdays at 5:15 PM.