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Featured Oral History

“Music Is Power”: Jade Adebo– Human Rights Activist

Allison Miller interviews Jade Adebo, graduate of Rutgers University with a double major in Political Science and History and a minor in Anthropology. She has had a lifelong passion for music and describes her life’s unique blend of songwriting and battling for human rights.

  • 0:14: Prior and Current Education, Current Work
  • 2:37: Ms Adebo’s evolution of music in her life— church and high school; college and the “competition” factor
  • 12:21: Current music projects
  • 15:36: High school music learning—assessment and accountability
  • 17:20: Music is still a huge part of everyday life
  • 19:06: Why Ms Adebo continues with music
  • 21:03: Human Rights: High School, UNESCO, Theater of the Oppressed and beyond
  • 28:34: “Music Is Power”: Music on Human Rights and vice versa
  • 30:33: Favorite musical experience so far
  • 33:31: Final words: Ms Adebo’s motto for life
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Upcoming Ecomusicology Conference

Locations and Dislocations: An Ecomusicological Conversation

April 8-10, 2016 Westminster Choir College of Rider University Princeton, NJ "Locations and Dislocations: An Ecomusicological Conversation" seeks to bring together scholars, performers, and composers to further explore the relationships between music, culture, and the environment. The conference will tune to sounds as they fit or belong in the place they are heard, as they fit or belong in some other place, or as they have no ecological home, either built or natural. Among the questions at

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