Africa Table: Musical Labor and the Aesthetics of Fatigue in Benin's Brass Bands

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Musical Labor and the Aesthetics of Fatigue in Benin’s Brass Bands

Lyndsey Hoh Copeland, Mellon Fellow at Stanford Humanities Center and Lecturer in Music at Department of Music,

Lyndsey Copeland is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and Lecturer in Ethnomusicology in Stanford’s Department of Music. Her current projects focus on amateur music making in the Republic of Benin, music and climate change, and music streaming services. Lyndsey's research has been supported by fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Clarendon Fund at the University of Oxford. Her recent articles appear in the journals Africa and Ethnomusicology Forum. In 2020, Lyndsey will join the University of Toronto as Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology.