Christopher A. Waterman (University of California, Los Angeles)

Submitted: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 16:27:46 GMT-8


Christopher A. Waterman
Professor
Department of World Arts and Cultures
University of California, Los Angeles
124 Dance Building
Box 951608
Los Angeles, California  90095  USA
  
phone:   310-206-0534
fax:     310-825-7507
e-mail:  cwater@arts.ucla.edu

Ph.D. in Anthropology, University Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1986);
Chair, African Studies Committee, University of Washington (1990-1996);
Areas of specialization include West Africa (Yoruba), Atlantic diaspora,
ethnomusicology, ethnography of art and aesthetics, popular culture,
globalization.

Publications 

Juju: A Social History and Ethnography of an African Popular Music
(University of Chicago Press, 1990)

"Africa" in Ethnomusicology: Historical and Geographical Studies
(Grove/Norton, 1993)

"Traversing the global and the local: Fuji music and praise poetry in the
production of contemporary Yoruba popular culture" (with Karin Barber) in
Worlds Apart: Modernity through the Prism of the Local (Routledge, 1995)