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From: Frank D Gunderson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 9:03 PM
Subject: Job Announcement: Director: ICAMD


> UNIVERSITY OF GHANA VACANCIES
>
> Applications are hereby invited from suitably qualified persons for the
> following posts:
>
> DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR AFRICAN MUSIC AND DANCE
>
> The Director is the administrative head of the Centre and will be
> responsible for providing leadership to the Centre in the teaching of
> and research into African Music and Dance.
>
> Applicants must be of professional status, with Africa as the primary
> field of research. Administrative and field experience in 2 or more
> African territories and a demonstrated interest in related cultural and
> development issues are essential.
>
> Forms of application should be obtained from the Registrar, University
> of. Ghana, P.O. Box 25; Legon, Accra or the Overseas Representative,
> Universities of Ghana Office, 32l, City Road, London ECIV ILJ with whom
> completed forms should be lodged no later than November 24, 2000
>
> The International Centre for African Music and Dance (ICAMD) was
> established at the University of Ghana, Legon, during the 1992-93
> academic year. Its evolution specifically stemmed from initiatives
> proposed by a group of International scholars from Africa, the United
> States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, who met at the Rockefeller
> Conference and Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, in October, 1992, with
> the purpose of addressing the possibility of setting up a central site
> devoted to scholarship on African music and dance. Attending this
> initial meeting were representatives of the Rockefeller Foundation, the
> Ford Foundation, and the Swedish International Development Authority
> (SIDA). Addressed during this Bellagio conference was the possibility of
> setting up a primary research center at the University of Ghana, Legon,
> with J.H. Kwabena Nketia serving as Director, dedicated to the
> development of materials and programs in African music and dance that
> would meet the growing needs of area scholars, research students, and
> creative artists.
>
> Through funding offered by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford
> Foundation, and SIDA, in conjunction with the dedication of Kwabena
> Nketia and others present at the Bellagio meeting, the International
> Centre for African Music and Dance was established. The ICAMD currently
> operates as a semi-autonomous unit within the University of Ghana's
> School of Performing Arts, hosting separate departments for music,
> dance, drama, and theatre studies. As encouraged by members present at
> the Bellagio conference, the ICAMD functions as an international center,
>
> catering to scholarship needs of those in Africa,
> as well as those abroad. Its objectives include providing a forum for
> international meetings and conferences, serving as an archival
> documentation and study center, and functioning as a clearing house for
> information on events, artists, scholars, and institutions concerned
> with the study and promotion of African music and dance. In addition,
> the journal, International Journal of African Music and Dance, was
> instituted, as was an International Advisory Board, with members
> representative of Africa, Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean,
> and the United States.
>
> The Centre is intended: To provide a forum for international meetings,
> conferences, seminars, workshops and special events in African music and
> dance; To serve as an archival documentation and study centre for
> African music and dance; To promote and coordinate research and
> development projects in music and dance; To prepare and publish
> monographs, source materials, and bibliographies; To serve as a
> clearinghouse for information on events, artists, scholars and
> institutions concerned with the study and promotion of African music and
> dance.
>

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