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UW Ethnomusicology Archives video recordings: Steven M. (Steven Michael) Friedson recordings: Addy Obo: Drumming Tradition of the Ga People, 1985
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Friedson, Steven M. (Steven Michael), 1948-
- Title
- UW Ethnomusicology Archives video recordings: Steven M. (Steven Michael) Friedson recordings: Addy Obo: Drumming Tradition of the Ga People
- Dates
- 198519851985
- Quantity
- 6 videotapes : 6 vcts (VHS, sp, color, stereo); Duration: 12:00:00
- Collection Number
- 1985029
- Summary
- Recorded in the University of Washington Music Bldg. Rm. 58, 6/19/85 - 7/15/85.
- Repository
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University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives
University of Washington
Ethnomusicology Archives
Box 353450
Seattle, WA
98195-3450
Telephone: 2065430974
ethnoarc@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Access is restricted.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Steven Friedson is a research professor of music and anthropology and head of the ethnomusicology program at the University of North Texas. For several decades he has been conducting comparative research on music and ritual in Africa. His initial work in northern Malawi takes a phenomenological approach to musical experience in traditional diagnostics and therapeutics among the Tumbuka-speaking peoples. This was followed by a long-term research project in the Volta Region of Ghana, studying one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast, a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the Northern Region of the country.
Obo Addy (1936 – 2012), from Accra, Ghana, was a drummer and dancer and one of the first native African musicians to bring the fusion of traditional folk music and Western pop music known as worldbeat to Europe and the Pacific Northwest of the United States during the late 1970s. He taught music at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Video recording by Steve Friedson with Panasonic PV-6110 or Panasonic PV-9000 (used at different sessions), Panasonic PK-975 camera.
Contents: Series of instructional sessions by master drummer Obo Addy to class members Steve Friedson, Gage Averill, Larry Godsey, Jon Kertzer, Lowell Lewis, Andy Etue, Cynthia Schmidt (on 1 or 2), Ernie Brown (on most).
Recordings made on T-120 videocassettes, but exact durations need to be determined.
Documentation: Copy of Friedson proposal for this project.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Ethnomusicology
- Traditional Ghana
Geographical Names
- Africa
- Ga
- Ghana
Form or Genre Terms
- Video recordings
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Addy, Obo (performer)