About

Grace Takyi Donkor is an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Music, School of Performing Arts at the University of Ghana, where she lectures on Ghanaian and African popular musical arts and indigenous music traditions in Ghana. Her research interests include gender issues in Ghanaian popular music, indigenous performance practices, and gospel music. She is particularly interested in the performance practices of female popular musicians and their various modes of representation. She co-authored an article that interrogates the concept of gospel highlife music in both Ghana and Nigeria. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the Department of Music, University of Ghana. Her current publication is a chapter contribution to the Routledge Handbook of Women’s Work in Music titled ‘Changing roles of women in the gospel music performance space in Ghana.’