Afrodiaspora – Composing While Black

Harald Kisiedu is a historical musicologist and Saxophonist who received his PhD in historical musicology from Columbia University. His research interests include Afrodiasporic classical and experimental Composers, jazz as a global phenomenon, Improvisation, music and politics, and Wagner. His writings have appeared in the WIRE, Grove Dictionary of American Music, Critical Studies in Improvisation, and Journal der Künste a. o. He has taught at the University of Music and Theatre ›Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy‹ Leipzig and the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück's Institute of Music. He isthe author of ›European
Echoes: Jazz Experimentalism in Germany, 1950–1975‹ (Wolke Verlag) and, together with George E. Lewis, co-editor of ›Composing While Black: Afrodiasporische Neue Musik Heute/Afrodiasporic New Music Today‹ (Wolke Verlag).