Academic interests
Doumbia is developing a doctoral research project on learning and teaching to play the djembe drum, comparing urban and rural institutional contexts in southern Mali.
Background
Noumouké Doumbia holds a Master degree in Psychopédagogie from Ecole Normale Supérieur de Bamako (2019) and a second Master in Sciences de l’éducation from
Université Catholique d’Afrique de l’Ouest in Bamako (2023). Doumbia has worked both as manager and as free-lance contractor for educational, communication, public relations and research projects in Mali, including as research assistant for projects led by Rainer Polak (UiO, Norway) and Nory Jacoby (MPI-EA, Germany).
Publications
- Polak, R., & Doumbia, N. (2022). Learning to dance in rural Mali. In A. v. B. Wharton & D. Urbanavi?ien? (Eds.), Dance and Economy, Dance Transmission: Proceedings of the 31st Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Study Group on Ethnochoreology (pp. 282–290). Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. [pdf]
- Jacoby, N., Polak, R., Grahn, J., Cameron, D. J., Lee, K. M., Godoy, R., Undurraga, E. A., Huanca, T., Thalwitzer, T., Doumbia, N., Goldberg, D., Margulis, E. H., Wong, P., Jure, L., Rocamora, M., Fujii, S., Savage, P. E., Ajimi, J., Konno, R., . . . McDermott, J. (2021, preprint). Universality and cross-cultural variation in mental representations of music revealed by global comparison of rhythm priors. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/b879v