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Dominik Phyfferoen

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Dominik Phyfferoen teaches jazz double bass and is an independent ethnomusicologist. He studied ethnomusicology in Ghana with Professor Kwabena Nketia and cultural musicology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is a member of the research group CARAM at the University of Ghent, the Department of Cultural Anthropology and African Studies, which stands for Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality. Additionally, he is affiliated with the Department of Musicology at IPEM, Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music. For many years, he worked as a researcher at the Department of Cultural Anthropology/Audio-Visual Archive of the RMCA- Tervuren, Belgium. His research is focused on cultural transformation processes in the "Dagbon Hiplife Zone in Tamale," a popular urban Ghanaian pop music culture in the Northern Region of Ghana. In his research on traditional music and dance in Dagbon, he focuses on defining key elements of embodied music interaction, the intensity factor, and the Sahelian factor in the traditional and contemporary idioms of music-making in Northern Ghana.
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