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Austin C. Okigbo is an associate professor in the College of Music听and affiliate faculty in Ethnic Studies and Global Health. He received his PhD听in Ethnomusicology and African Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a master鈥檚 in Sacred Music and Music Education from Westminster Choir College where he studied with Robin Leaver, Joseph Flummerfelt, James Jordan and Frank Abrahams, with performance tracks in voice and choral conducting. He also has degrees in philosophy and theology from the Pontifical Urban University, Rome.听His research focuses on religious music, musical diasporas, global health, inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogues. Prior to joining CU Boulder, Professor Okigbo taught at Williams College as the Sterling Brown Visiting Professor, Harvard University听and the University of Notre Dame.
Okigbo has featured in a number of local and international radio and television programs including BBC, Channels TV Lagos, Nigeria听and Black Radio Consortium as contributor and analyst on the entertainment industry, and cultural education and policy. He is the author of听Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health: Ethnography of a South African AIDS Choir (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016).听He听has published articles in听Africa Today, Du Bois Review, Ethnomusicology, Journal of Folklore Research,听补苍诲听The Journal of the International Library of African Music.听He is the editor of the听World of Music听(Verlag, Berlin, Germany 2015) on the New African Musical Diasporas. Professor Okigbo鈥檚 current work includes book projects on music and cultural imaginations in African Christianity; and new African musical diasporas. He also has an on-going project on World Music of the Front Range, Colorado.
Okigbo directs the CU Boulder World Vocal Ensemble, which has featured with the world famous South African vocal group, The Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and the multi-award-winning popular musician and activist Johnny Clegg. He has conducted college, church听and community choirs in the United States, South Africa听and Nigeria. He also served as co-chair of the African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology (2014-2017)鈥攁nd on听several committees in the organization and the African Studies Association.
Selected courses taught at CU Boulder
Graduate seminars:听Ethnomusicology Proseminar;听World Music Pedagogy; Black Atlantic, Black American Music, Music in African Life
Undergraduate seminars:听Music and Global Health; Music and Politics in Africa; Art Music of Africa; Music in African Religious Experience; Ethnomusicology Senior Seminar