ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 4月25日 12時53分

On the morning of the African Cultural Festival at the University of North Texas (@unt), the festival’s founder was doing last-minute errands. There were drums to gather, programs to pick up from the printer, costumes to procure. For these annual events, Torgbui Midawo Gideon Foli Alorwoyie is his own promoter, his own publicist, his own street team. “I do everything myself,” he explained. The 71-year-old is a rarity in American academia: a master drummer from Africa who is a tenured professor of #Africandrumming and dance, disciplines that are difficult to categorize within Western musical theory. In his own country, Ghana, he’s one of the few musicians working arduously to pass on traditions in danger of disappearing. Without a written history, traditional Ghanaian drumming is part of a family of African song forms that don’t fit easily into Western pedagogical models. Even in Africa, the sacred songs and rhythms that he teaches are struggling, with the drummers and dancers of Ghana’s national ensemble earning salaries that barely sustain them. The photographer @avose took this portrait of Torgbui Midawo Gideon Foli Alorwoyie while on #nytassignment. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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