Kofi Agawu is Professor of Music at Princeton University and Visiting Scholar at the University of Ghana, Legon. He is the author of articles and reviews on the analysis of European and African music. His books include Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music (Princeton University Press, 1991), which received the Young Scholar Award from the Society for Music Theory in 1994, African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1995), and, most recently, Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions (Routledge, 2003). A Guggenheim Fellow (1990), he was awarded the Dent Medal in 1992 by the Royal Musical Association, and elected Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.