The Class of 1957, Chair; Director, Center for African Studies, Professor of Music Department
Center for African Studies
James Q. Davies is The Class of 1957 Chair, the Faculty Director at the Center for African Studies, and Professor of Music. He is editor of the UChicago Press book series New Material Histories of Music, and scholar with musicological interests and expertise in the long nineteenth century. He authored the books Romantic Anatomies of Performance (California: 2014) and Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817-1913 (Chicago: 2023). James grew up in Johannesburg, with first degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand. He...
