| Christopher
A. Brooks
Associate Professor of Music
Stark House
Email:
cabrooks@vcu.edu
|
Specialty
Areas:
ethnomusicology,
Africa, African diaspora
Biographical
Sketch
Dr. Christopher A. Brooks is Associate
Professor of Music and African-American Studies. He received
his Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin where his
research interests include the Yoruba music drama from an
anthropological, ethno-musicological and historical perspective.
He has also done field research in Ghana, Benin and is currently
conducting research in Zimbabwe on that country's Women's
League. He spent the summer of 1992 collecting more data
on the women's rights organization. A recipient of a
Fulbright and other national grants, he was also a lecturer
in the African and African-American Studies Center at the
University of Texas at Austin. He has published articles
on African and African-American issues. |
