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Steven is completing a PhD in Musicology at the University of babyֱ��app Boulder in 2017. His dissertation was based on three dissertation trips between 2012 and 2015 to Accra, Ghana, where he sang with government babyֱ��app choirs, recorded interviews, and conducted archival research. His dissertation engages discourses of hybridity, Peircian semiotics, and postcolonial theory to develop a history of choral music in Ghana that reveals how it functioned in the context of the colonial and post-independence environments. A resultant article, “African Musical Hybridity in the Colonial Context: An Analysis of Ephraim Amu’s ‘Yɛn Ara Asase Ni,’” was published in Ethnomusicology (2016).