DjeDje, Jacqueline Cogdell
Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, who joined the ethnomusicology faculty in 1979, received her BA from Fisk University in 1966. She obtained her MA and PhD from UCLA in 1972 and 1978, respectively. DjeDje has conducted fieldwork in West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, The Gambia, and Senegal), Jamaica, and the United States (Georgia and California). She is the author of Spiritual and Gospel Songs from Southeast Georgia: A Comparative Study (1978), Distribution of the One-String Fiddle in West Africa (1980), Black American Religious Music from Southeast Georgia (a recording with accompanying booklet, 1979). She co-edited Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, Volume V (1984), is the principal editor of the two-volume work African Musicology: Current Trends (1989 and 1992), and has contributed articles to a number of periodicals. She is co-editor of a collection of essays entitled California Soul: Music of African Americans in the West, (1998). Her most recent work is Turn Up the Volume! A Celebration of African Music, an edited book published in conjunction with three Los Angeles museum exhibitions on African music. She is former president of the Southern California Chapter of the Society of Ethnomusicology, and second vice president of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Twice an award recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts, she has served as panelist for the Folk Arts Program of that organization. In October 2000, she became Director of the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive.
Archive call number: Tape 10163
4 sound tape reels: Composite of one string fiddle music from the Hausa of Northern Nigeria and Dagomba of Northern Ghana, by the collector]. Song texts and transcriptions of the collection are given in the collector's Ph.D. dissertation, "The One String Fiddle in West Africa: A Comparison of Hausa and Dagomba Traditions," 3 vols., UCLA, l978. Field recordings were made by the collector in Ghana and Nigeria, l972-l974.
Archive call number: Tape 10164
14 sound tapes: Parts of the are collection described in the collector's MA thesis, "An Analytical Study of the Similarities and Differences in the American Black Spiritual and Gospel Songs from the Southeast Region of Georgia," UCLA, 1972. Tape documentation by the collector: Composite of Black American religious songs. Field recordings made by the collector in Georgia, California, and Florida, l97l.