Dr. Pemi Oludare
Dr. Olupemi Oludare is a postdoctoral researcher in the NWO funded project on “When Language has a Beat”, which investigates drum language in Africa. In addition to language-based music and musicology, Olupemi’s research interests include the interaction of rhythm, language and identity, as well as music and language for human and social development. Olupemi obtained a Ph.D. in theory and analysis from University of Lagos in 2016. He contributed to the Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia for popular music of the world, published in 2019. In the same year, Olupemi won the Edinburgh Catalyst Fellowship to attend the European conference on African studies, and also gave a lecture and workshop on “Rhythm, Movement and Cognition” at the Institute for music in human and social development, University of Edinburgh. His current research is on speech surrogacy in Yoruba drum language