Dr. E. Kwadwo O. Beeko is currently a Faculty member in the University of Pittsburgh, and teaching at both the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of Music. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Ethnomusicology at the University of Pittsburgh (2005), a Master’s degree in Philosophy of Music at the University of Ghana, Legon (2000), a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana (1996), and a Diploma in Music at the National Academy of Music, Winneba, Ghana (1984). Beeko has some long-term experience and a proven success in teaching and motivating students to learn both in class-room setting and outside the class-room that involves research, volunteering work, etc. He also has a personal enthusiasm, humor, and commitment, essential for generating respect and interest, as well as for promoting teamwork, among students. His broad teaching interest has been on African performance aesthetics that deals with music, dance and theater; and the study of African traditions that deals with pre-colonial, colonial and contemporary African history, politics, society, culture, and religion. His research interest has been on Black performance aesthetics, and the creativity, innovation and processes of change that are employed in the peoples’ musical traditions, with particular emphasis on cognitive processes in musical performances. The courses that he is currently teaching at the University of Pittsburgh include Introduction to Africa; Early African Civilization; and African Literature and Society at the Department of Africana Studies; and Music in Africa, and Introduction to World Musicat the Department of Music.