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Thursday, Nov 14, 2024

3:00 — 4:30 pm

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Beyond Genre: Navigating the Ambiguities and Global Contexts of Afrobeats

Focusing on Afrobeats and its global significance, this talk examines the complexities and limitations of genre classification in music, revealing the ambiguities and challenges in categorizing Afrobeats music.

About Genevieve Allotey-Pappoe
Genevieve joined the faculty at Brown University in 2024. Previously, she was a graduate fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies while she completed her PhD in the Department of Music at Princeton University. Her main research and teaching interests include music of Africa and the Black diaspora. She studies the global circulation, experience, and contextualization of Black music genres. Her research is anchored by a deep examination of the multiple remediations of Black music as it moves between geographical locations, offline and online communities, and across digital platforms. Other research interests include sound studies, the music industry, music and digital technology, and the creative economy. Between 2021 and 2022, she was a visting fellow at the Humanities Branch of the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona (IMF-CSIC). In 2023, she was awarded the Eugene K Wolf research grant by the American Musicological Society for her dissertation “Between Acousmatic Blackness and Blacksound: The Cultural Politics of Black Music in Spain”

She is currently working on a project that explores Blackness in Spain using sound, race, and digital technology as critical categories.

Genevieve is also a composer and the founder/host of the Black Music Nomad podcast.