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J.H. Kwabena Nketia
3+ albums
ghanaghanaian
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Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia (22 June 1921 – 13 March 2019) was a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer. He wrote extensively for Western orchestral instruments, like the flute, violin, cello, percussion and piano. He was critically acclaimed for his usage of traditional African instruments in modern scores. Nketia was a professor of music at UCLA and the University of Pittsburgh, and lectured in many prestigious universities worldwide, including Harvard and Stanford University. He was a professor of music at the University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, where he began teaching in 1952. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.