
Ruthie Meadows, âEfficacy of Sound: Power, Potency, and Promise in the Translocal Ritual Music of Cuban IfĂĄ-ĂrĂŹsĂ â
Social Sciences and Humanities Building, Room 2203 250 N Quad Avenue, Davis, C, United StatesSOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES BUILDING, ROOM 2203. Ruthie Meadows is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the School of Music at the University of Nevada, Reno. In the first book-length ethnographic study on music and IfĂĄ divination in Cuba and Nigeria, Ruthie Meadows explores how IfĂĄÂ practitioners in Cuba, Nigeria and the Caribbean are reshaping YorubĂĄ rituals through cross-cultural exchange. 12pâ1:30p. Free