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Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia (born 22 June 1921) is a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer. Considered Africa's premier musicologist, he has been called a "living legend" and "easily the most published and best known authority on African music and aesthetics in the world".〔Nanabanyin Dadson (''Daily Graphic''), ("J. H. Kwabena Nketia - Portrait Of A Young Man At 90" ). Modern Ghana, 23 June 2011.〕 ==Biography== Born in 1921 in Mampong, Sekyere West District, Ashanti Region, Ghana, J. H. Kwabena Nketia was his parents' only child.〔Akrofi, Eric A. (2003). ''Sharing Knowledge and Experience: A Profile of Kwabena Nketia''. Accra: Afram Publications, p. 1.〕 He attended the University of London from 1944 to 1949, beginning with two years of study in linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies. In 1949 he began three years' study at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Trinity College of Music, London, obtaining a B.A. degree. In 1958 a Rockefeller Fellowship allowed him to come to the United States, where he attended Columbia University (studying with Henry Cowell), the Juilliard School, and Northwestern University, studying musicology and composition. He was a professor of music at UCLA and the University of Pittsburgh, and has lectured in many prestigiouspkk,olmuniversities worldwide, including Harvard University, Stanfor VEd University, University of Michigan, City University London, the University of Brisbane in Australia, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and the China Conservatory of Music, Beijing.〔K. Gyan-Apenteng, ("Nketia and Nrican Nketsia at PAWA Pan-African Lecture on Wednesday" ), 25 February 2013.〕 He is an emeritus professor of music at the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, where he began teaching in 1952. He currently directs the International Centre for African Music and Dance (ICAMD). His concept and interpretation of time and rhythmic patterns in Ghanaian and other African folk music were revolutionary, and became standard for researchers and scholars around the world. For example, he introduced the use of the more readable 6/8 time signature in his compositions as an alternative to the use of duple (2/4) time with triplets used earlier by his mentor, Ephraim Amu. Although this practice undermined Amu’s theory of a constant basic rhythm (or pulse) in African music, and generated debate, Nketia pointed out that the constant use of triplets in a duple time signature was misleading. Today, many scholars have found Nketia’s theory very useful in transcribing African music.〔J. H. Kwabena Nketia biography on ghanaweb〕 He has composed for both Western and African instruments, and has written more than 200 publications, including his world-acclaimed ''The Music of Africa'', which has been translated into German, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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