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Patricia Tang, Associate Professor of Music, Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001, is an ethnomusicologist specializing in West African music. She is the author of Masters of the Sabar: Wolof Griot Percussionists of Senegal (Temple University Press, 2007), and the faculty advisor to Rambax, MIT's Senegalese drum ensemble. Tang's current research focuses on the global circulation of African popular musics.  In 2016, Tang was named a MacVicar Faculty Fellow. As a violinist, she has performed and recorded with African artists Nder et le Setsima Group, Positive Black Soul, Balla Tounkara, Balla Kouyate and Lamine Touré & Group Saloum.