Solomon Gwerevende, PhD
(AMMR grantee)
 

 

Solomon Gwerevende is an ethnomusicologist whose primary research focuses on the interdisciplinary intersections of applied ethnomusicology, ethnochoreology, popular music, Indigenous minority cultures and intangible cultural heritage. He recently completed a PhD in Applied Ethnomusicology, which was funded by the Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship at Dublin City University, within the School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music.

In addition to his PhD, Solomon holds a Choreomundus International Master Degree in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage, funded by the European Union through its Erasmus Mundus+ programme. This degree was jointly offered by the University of Clermont Auvergne in France, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway, the University of Szeged in Hungary, and the University of Roehampton in the United Kingdom. He also has a first-class Master of Arts in Ethnochoreology from the University of Limerick in Ireland, which was supported by the Stepping Stone Scholarship.

Solomon has published over fifteen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters that address topics such as music and politics, ethnochoreology, ethnomusicology, liberation heritage, and intangible cultural heritage. He has presented more than twenty peer-reviewed conference papers in various countries, including South Africa, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Ireland, Portugal, Norway, Colombia, Slovenia, and Turkey. From 2020 to 2022, he served as an executive board member of the Choreomundus Alumni Association, during which he pioneered and curated the Association’s Online Dance Research Seminar Series.

Solomon received an AMMR seed money grant from MMRC to develop a research project provisionally titled: “Forgotten Minority Living Heritage: Applied Ethnomusicology of Dema Music and Dance of the Doma People for Cultural Justice in Zimbabwe.”