Kebede, Ashenafi, 1938-1998
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Name (Latin)
Kebede, Ashenafi, 1938-1998
Other forms of name
'äšänafi käbädä, 1938-1998
Kabada, ʼAšanāfi, 1938-1998
ʼAšanāfi Kabada, 1938-1998
Ashnefi Kebede, 1938-1998
Ashenafi Kebede, 1938-1998
Kebede, Ashenafi, 1938-
Ashnefi Kebede, 1938-
Ashenafi Kebede, 1938-
Date of birth
1938-05-07
Date of death
1998-05-08
Place of birth
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
Associated country
United States
Other associated place
Ethiopia
Associate group
Haile Sellassie I University
Eastman School of Music
Yared Music School
Queens College (New York, N.Y.)
City University of New York
Florida State University
Occupation
Composers
Ethnomusicologists
Scholars
Teachers
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Dictionary of African Biography, accessed November 25, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Ashenafi, Kebede; ethnomusicologist, composer, scholar, teacher; born 1938 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; attended the Harar Teachers' Training School; taught music at Haile Sellassie I University and the Addis Ababa YMCA before obtaining BA in Music (1962) from Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester; returned to Addis Ababa as the first official Director of the Yared School of Music (1963-1968); received MA (1969) and PhD (1971) in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, United States; settled permanently in the United States; director of the Ethnomusicology Program at Queens College; assistant professor at City University of New York (1970-1976); professor of music and director of Center for African American Culture at Florida State University (1977-1998); executive officer of Ethius, Inc.; chair of the International Arts Council for African and Afro-American Affairs; designated as (S2(BNational Composer(S3 (Band awarded the Haile Selassie I Foundation Grant; died 1998)
- Muziqā, No. 1:t.p. (ʼAšanāfi Kabada = Ashenafi Kebede)
- Notes, June 1999:p. 863 (Kebede, Ashenafi; d. May 8, 1998, at 70 [sic]; Ethiopian composer, conductor, ethnomusicologist, musicologist, music educator, novelist, and poet)
- Int. ww in mus., 9th ed.(Kebede, Ashenafi; b. May 7, 1938, Bulga, Shoa, Ethiopia; ethnomusicologist, composer, poet, teacher, musician)
- The music of Ethiopia ... [Phonodisc] 1969.
- LCN