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Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts

Nana Hemaa Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum

Professor
School of Music
Office
JH Julian Hall 53
Office Phone
(309) 438-7340office
phone
Email
okaduon@ilstu.eduemail
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Biography

I am a Professor of Music, and an award-winning and nationally-recognized playwright and performer. I teach courses in Black Music, Ethnomusicology, and I direct the ISU drumming and dance ensemble.

Current Courses

MUS 139.001 African Drumming And Dance Ensemble

MUS 154.001 Black Music II

MUS 154.002 Black Music II

MUS 239.001 Ensemble (African Drumming And Dance)

MUS 439.001 Ensemble: African Drumming And Dance

MUS 456.001 Music and Societies: Women in Music

MUS 356.001 Music And Societies:Women In Music

MUS 139.001 African Drumming And Dance Ensemble

MUS 153.001 Black Music I

MUS 489.001 Black Music: Africa to Afrofuturism

MUS 356.001 Black Music: From Africa to Afrofuturism

MUS 239.001 Ensemble (African Drumming And Dance)

MUS 439.001 Ensemble: African Drumming And Dance

Teaching Interests & Areas

African American Music, Music in Captivity, Music of African Diaspora, Sensory Studies, Practice-led Research

Research Interests & Areas

Sensory Studies, Practice-led Research, Music in Slave Dungeons

PhD

Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida

Ellen T. Blaney Book Prize in Humanities

ISU College of Arts and Sciences
2023

University Outstanding Creative Activity Award

University
2020

Book, Authored

https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781648250446/walking-with-asafo-in-ghana/
Aduonum, A. Beautiful Little Girl: I Like Me!. Anchor Press Books, Ltd. (2020)
Aduonum, A. I Am Proud of My Ancestors: They Overcame. Anchor Press Books, Ltd. (2020): 59.

Book, Chapter

Aduonum, A. Entering the Lives of Others: Entangled Intimacies, Trauma, and Performance.. Sidra Lawrence and Michelle Kisliuk (EDs), Intimate Entanglements: Vulnerability in the Ethnography of Performance. University of Rochester Press (2023)
Aduonum, A. Entering the Lives of Others: Entangled Intimacies, Trauma, and Performance. Sidra Lawrence and Michelle Kisliuk (EDs), Intimate Entanglements in the Ethnography of Performance: Race, Gender, Vulnerability. University of Rochester Press, Boydell and Brewer

Journal Article

Aduonum, A. Walking as Fieldwork Method in Ethnomusicology. Frank Gunderson (EDs). Journal for the Society for Ethnomusicology 65.2 (2021): 221-258.
Ethnomusicology 65 (2):203-228--2021

Other

Aduonum, A., Alcalde, M., Meyer, A., Atman, C., Childers, S., Craig, L., Diede, M., Ellis, E., Gullion, J., Hanna, C., & others. Teacher, scholar, mother: Re-envisioning motherhood in the academy. Lexington Books (2015)

Presentations

Book TALK: Walking with Asafo In Ghana.. University of Cape Coast Graduate Seminar, Department of Music and Dance. University of Cape Coast, Department of Music and Dance. (2024)
Book TALK: Walking with Asafo In Ghana.. University of Cape Coast, Department of Music and Dance Graduate Seminar. University of Cape Coast, Department of Music and Dance. (2024)
Bi Nka Bi: Finding, Celebrating, and Sustaining Our Authentic Selves as Artists, Scholars, and Instructors. Bi Nka Bi: Finding, Celebrating, and Sustaining Our Authentic Selves as Artists, Scholars, and Instructors. Center for Integrative Professional Development. (2023)
Creative Fictions and Silence. Society for Ethnomusicology. Society for Ethnomusicology. (2023)
Moving Away from Whiteness: The Musicologist of Africa as An Indigenous Scholar. International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD). (2023)
Moving Away in Silence. International Council for Music and Dance. (2023)
Music and Melanin at ISU. Black Heritage Ball. ISU Black Students Organization. (2023)
Walking with Asafo in Ghana: Book Reading and Talk. Book Reading and Talk. Milner Library. (2023)
Walking with Asafo: Decentering Music Research and Theory. Midwest Chapter for Ethnomusicology. (2023)
https://bfe2023.wordpress.com/our-keynote-speaker/

Grants & Contracts

Walking with My Ancestois. School of Music. Illinois State University. (2022)
Walking with My Ancestors. Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Illinois State University. (2022)
Walking with My Ancestors. Unitarian Universalist Churcn Social Justice Fund. Private. (2022)
Walking with My Ancestors Black History Month Celebration. College of Fine Arts. Illinois State University. (2022)