Dr. Boudina McConnachie (PhD, PGCE, RULS) is a lecturer in ethnomusicology at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. She co-ordinates various music education courses through the Rhodes University Education department and is integrally involved in the teaching and learning programme at the International Library of African Music (ILAM). Boudina completed her undergraduate music degree majoring in African music (uhadi and mbira) and was a music teacher at a government school in the Eastern Cape for over ten years. She has written two books relating to African music education for school children, Listen and Learn, Music Made Easy (2012) and My Music, My Classroom- Umculo Wam, Iklasi Yam (2016) and is involved in the development of African music curricula for various South African departmental projects.
Experience
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–presentEthnomusicology and African Musical Arts lecturer, Rhodes University
Education
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2017Rhodes University, PhD in African Languages and Ethnomusicology
Publications
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2016My Music, My Classroom - Umculo Wam, iKlasi Yam, NAC
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2012Music Made Easy, ILAM, NAC
Grants and Contracts
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2019Mapping Africa's Music Identity
- Role:
- Contributing scholar
- Funding Source:
- Mellon Foundation
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2018Unsettling Paradigms - The decolonial Turn
- Role:
- Contributing scholar
- Funding Source:
- Mellon Foundation
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined
