Alfred Ladzekpo

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History

Alfred Ladzekpo is a retired West African music and dance instructor from Ghana. He has been in Ghana since 1966. He was a co-director of the African music and dance program and a master chief drummer at Cal Arts. He has been the lead drummer for in Accra, Ghana for the Uhuru Dance Band, Ghebo Research group and National Dance Company. He taught African music and dance at the Columbia University for almost four years. He was an African drumming instructor at an American university known as Cal Arts since 1970. [1]

He was an instructor for 41 years. He has been writing articles on African music and dance from 1980 to 2012 with 19 works in 23 publications in 2 languages.[2]

He has mostly performed in the eastern part of united states and similarly in Ghana, and he gave lecture-demonstrations, performances and taught music and dance workshops in Israel and the eastern part of united states.[3]

Alfred Ladzekpo co-founded the Lashibi Agahu music and dance group at the age of 13 years in Anyako, east of the Ghanaain capial of Accra. He also founded and led the Anlo Awoame Fia School Atsiagbekor music and dance group in the year 1957. [4]

He attended the first international symposium in 1992 in Amsterdam on teaching world music. He recorded African dances and Games in 1969 in New york. He received a BA in journalism form California State University Northridge in the year 1974 and in 1983, a JD from the peoples College of Law. He joined the music faculty of Pomona College in 1994.[5]

His farewell service was held at the Cal Arts World's music and Dance Festival . He retired at the end of the semester after teaching for 41 years at the Cal Arts Institute.[6]

References

http://musc265.blogs.wesleyan.edu/drumming/

http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n97850560/

https://issuu.com/calarts/docs/mag10_051611/6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQfwufIKEjg&ab_channel=ArtistsHouseMusic

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