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FACES OF MACSEM
Lorna McDaniel
Born
in Antigua, West Indies, of Jamaican missionary parents and growing up
in Harlem, NY, as a young pianist, Lorna McDaniel entered Juilliard
School of Music for organ study and later pursued her interest in 18th
century music on a Fullbright grant in Frankfurt am Main. Thereafter,
she taught for many years at historically black colleges and at the
University of Nigeria at Nsukka. Her dissertation topic was sparked by
an encounter with Paule Marshallís novel Praisesong for the
Widow and evolved into a book: The Big Drum Ritual of Carriacou: Praisesongs in Rememory of Flight
(University Press of Florida, 1998). In 1981, Dr. McDaniel became the
first president of MACSEM. She is currently finishing a book, The Flying Africans, on enslaved people of South Carolina and the Caribbean who believed that they could fly.
"We should be
cognizant of out surroundings and location, and aware of the people
around us, their language, food, and dance, for they all become part of
us and frame our choices, consciousness, and ethnomusicological skill."
Posted by Kai Fikentscher on February 26, 2006.
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Last Updated 12/13/06.