Department Highlights

Kwasi Ampene

Tufts Music Chair Kwasi Ampene delivers keynote lecture

October 2023
Professor Ampene's lecture "What is African Music? Reflections on decolonizing the study and performance of the musical arts of Africa in the Academy" served as the keynote for the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Ottawa, Canada on October 20, 2023.

Rich Jankowsky

Society for Ethnomusicology awards Professor Rich Jankowsky

October 2023
In October 2023, Professor Jankowsky received the prestigious Alan P. Merrian Prize at SEM's 68th Annual Meeting for his monograph Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form (Chicago 2021). At the conference, Professor Jankowsky was also the joint keynote speaker for the Society for Arab Music Research and Religion, Music, and Sound Section. His book received honorable mention for the American Institute for Maghreb Studies L. Carl Brown Book Prize.

Kwasi Ampene

Kwasi Ampene, Tufts Music chair, receives lifetime achievement award

October 2023
Professor Ampene was awarded a 3G Legend and Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th Edition of 3G Annual Awards and Celebrity Bash in New York City on October 7, 2023 in recognition of outstanding contribution to highlife music in Ghana and the US, and the music industry in Ghana.