- Ph.D., University of the Witwatersrand, 2022
- MMus, Stellenbosch University, 2017
- BMus, University of Cape Town, 2015
- B.A., University of Education, Winneba, 2012
Oladele Ayorinde
Visiting Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
- ooayorin@iu.edu
- 800 E. 3rd St., 241
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Education
Research interests
- Ethnography of African musics and cultures
- Music and political economy of everyday life
- African music: practices and performance cultures
- Economic ethnomusicology
- African popular music and music industries
- Cultural policy and management
- Applied Ethnomusicology, music and social transformation
- Sound Studies, accoustemology of cities and urban life
- Music documentation and archive management
- Belonging and conviviality: festival cultures of the African/black diaspora
Courses recently taught
- Introduction to World Music & Culture
- Economic Ethnomusicology
- Popular Music and Everyday Life in Contemporary Africa
- The Sound World and Music in/from the Global South
- Music and Society in West Africa
- Critical Music Studies: Concepts and Contexts
Publication highlights
- Ayorinde, Oladele. Forthcoming. “‘We had our own Jazz bands’: A Five-Bar Intro to Jazz in Lagos, 1950-1990.” Jazz and Culture. (Spring 2023).
- Ayorinde, Oladele. Forthcoming. “Festival Study as a Framework for Critical Social Justice: a Perspective from Johannesburg” in McDonald, D., Reed, J., and Andrew, S. (eds.) Festival Activism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Ayorinde, Oladele. Forthcoming. “‘Barrister is Fújì and Fújì is Barrister’: Fújì Music, Self-making and the Politics of Genre-making in Lagos.” Ethnomusicology Forum.
- Ayorinde, O. (2020). “Dizu Plaatjies and the Amampondo: A case of Music, Agency and Social Transformation.” SAMUS: South African Music Studies, 40:156-184.
- Ayorinde, O. Talabi, O. and A. Okunade. 2020. “Documenting and Archiving the Nigerian Musical Arts: Note on Methods, Process and Practices.” JANIM: Journal of Association of Nigerian Musicology, 14 (1):78-91.
- Ayorinde, O. (2019). “‘Unholy Trinity’ and ‘Transformation’ in Post-1994 South Africa: Re-focusing Transformation in Higher Education for Social and Economic Empowerment.” Leeds African Studies Bulletin, 80: 68-98
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