Kazadi wa Mukuna, an ethnomusicologist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is Professor of ethnomusicology at the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.  Kazadi received his Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of São Paulo in Brazil.  He has taught at various universities in Africa, Brazil and the US.  Professor Kazadi is the author of the following books: Contribuição Bantu na Música Popular Brasileira: Perspectivas Etnomusicológicas; Bantu Contributions in Brazilian Popular Music: Ethnomusicological Perspectives; An Interdisciplinary Study of the Ox and the Slave (Bumba-meu-Boi): A Satirical Music Drama in Brazil; Um Olhar Africano na Dramaturgia de Bumba-meu-Boi no Brasil; The Ox and the Slave: A Satirical Music Drama in Brazil; Characteristic Criteria in the Vocal Music of the Luba Shankadi Children, and numerous articles on the popular music of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Brazilian cultural study.