 Gregory Barz received the Ph.D.
in ethnomusicology from Brown University in 1997,
submitting a dissertation titled: "The Performance
of Religious and Social Identity: An Ethnography of
Post-Mission Kwaya Music in Tanzania (East
Africa)." He taught courses in ethnomusicology in
the divisions of continuing education at the University
of Chicago and at Brown University. He taught for a year
in the Department of Art, Music, and Theatre at the
University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Most recently, he taught ethnomusicology in the Department of Music at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada), where he was also Acting Director of the Centre for Ethnomusicology. In the summer of 1997 he will assume the position in London (U.K.) of ethnomusicology editor for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. |