Music, Trance, and Healing in West Africa

Studies Abroad Program in Ghana

• Experience the Medicine Shrines of the Volta Region

• Study Drumming, Dancing, and Singing with one of the Great Priest-Drummers of the Brekete Shrine

• Take Special Trips to the Slave Forts at Cape Coast and Elmina

• Visit Kakum National Park to Transverse the Tropical Forest Canopy

Spend three weeks at a field school located on beach front property next to a fishing village in the Volta Region. Along with master classes in music, language, and culture, students will visit and participate in shrine activities.

The field school, Volta Centre for the Arts, is affiliated with the International Centre for African Music and Dance, University of Ghana at Legon.

Total cost of trip is $3400.00:  airfare, room and board, ground transportation, all instructional and entrance fees inclusive.

For further information contact Professor Steven Friedson, University of North Texas, College of Music, Denton, Texas 76203.

Phone: 940-369-7541

Fax: 940-565-2002

OPEN TO ALL!