Matthew Morin is a doctoral candidate in musicology at Florida State University writing a dissertation on music and civil society in Kenya based on fieldwork conducted in Kenya and Tanzania during 2010 and 2011. He currently lives in Japan and is continuing research on music and civil society from a global perspective.
Matt has been following the progress of the Singing Wells project since March 2011 when he met the team in Nairobi. He has praised the project for its ‘value to academic fields like musicology and anthropology in addition to the broader benefit of providing an open sourced educational resource, internationally as well as to East Africans‘.
Here is Matt’s full evaluation of the Singing Wells project: Matt Morin on Singing Wells
