by Jamie Topper
A community bombazo at Africaribe Cultural Center, Chicago
I am a musician and Teaching Artist. I have found myself repeatedly invited into musical cultures different from my own ethnic heritage. This is a gift, and my impulse to reciprocate has led me to develop community projects that I call collaborative ethnomusicology. In this essay I will share three examples of these types of projects, the philosophical and pedagogical frameworks that support them, and the nuts and bolts of how they get done.
