Eric Charry (Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut)


Submitted: Tues, 13 February 2001


Eric Charry
Associate Professor
Department of Music
Wesleyan University
Middletown, Connecticut  06459  USA

phone:   860-685-2597 (Departmental office)
fax:     860-685-2651
e-mail:  echarry@mail.wesleyan.edu

Web site:  http://echarry.web.wesleyan.edu/index.html


Traditional and modern music of West Africa, especially Mali, Guinea,
Senegal, and Gambia.  Focus on Mande peoples: Maninka (Malinke), and
Mandinka.

Author of: 

Mande music: traditional and modern music of the Maninka and Mandinka of
western Africa.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.  500 p.