John Collins (musician/researcher)

John Collins (musician/researcher)

John Collins is since 1969 active in West African popular music as a musician, bandleader, studio-owner, writer and scientist. He is currently head of the department of music-sciences of the University of Ghana in Legon. He has done some research into and documentation of Highlife, a Ghanaian popular music.

John Collins also plays in a band, called The local dimension palmwine.

External links

* [http://www.saoas.org/fss/rrr.pdf African Musical Symbolism in Contemporary Perspective, by John Collins] - by-nc-sa


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