Bode Omojola is Five College Professor of Music at Mount Holyoke College and the Five College Consortium (Amherst, Hampshire, Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst), USA.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Leicester, England and has held many prestigious academic positions, including the Radcliffe Fellowship in musicology at Harvard University and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship in music at the University of Cologne, Germany.
Omojola’s research disciplines and interests include urban musicology, ethnomusicology, Black diaspora music, and African art music. His works have been published in many international peer-reviewed journals like Black Music Research Journal, British Forum for Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology, Research in African Literatures, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Journal of the Association of Nigerian Musicologists, and Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, to mention just a few.
His book Yoruba Music in The Twentieth Century (University of Rochester Press, 2012) won the Kwabena Nketia Honorable Mention Award of the African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology in 2014. Omojola is one of Nigeria’s leading composers. His most recent opera (Odyssey of a Dream) was premiered in April 2018 by the Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra and Five College African opera students.
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