African Music: A Pan-African Annotated Bibliography - Hardcover

Carol Lems-Dworkin is an Africanist author, musicologist, former concert pianist, professor, lecturer, and piano teacher. She has published three African-related books, and made six piano recordings of Bach soon to be released on the Internet. She holds two degrees from Northwestern University, graduated "with honors and distinction," and is a member of the following honorary academic societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi (Science), Sigma Alpha Iota (Honorary Member - Music), and Pi Kappa Lambda (Graduate-level - Music). She also received an Honorary Graduate Certificate In African Studies from the Program of African Studies of Northwestern University. At one time she studied with famed Anthropologist, Melville J. Herskovits, and Ethnomusicologist, Richard Waterman. In recent years she has specialized in the works of Scott Joplin, "The King of Ragtime," and gives regular lecture-performances on his life and music. Lems-Dworkin also lectures and conducts courses on African music and Black music of the New World.

"...this work merits acquisition by all colections with an African component and those interested in the many interdisciplinary implications of the subject." -- American Reference Books Annual

"This is a wonderfully human bibliography which covers a lively subject...a spirited work...The bibliography is well researched..." -- Reference Reviews