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For our program “Ghana: Celebration Sounds,” we talked with James Burns, professor of music at Binghamton. He has played and researched music from Ghana, Togo and Benin for the past 20 years, written an acclaimed book, Female Voices from an Ewe Dance-drumming Community in Ghana: Our Music Has Become A Divine Spirit, and produced a number of commercial releases of  music and video from groups based in the Volta region of Ghana. Morgan Greenstreet: In this program, we hear a lot of borborbor, what can you tell us about the history of borborbor in Ghana? It's a relatively new, neo-traditional music right? When was it created? James Burns: A lot of the research that's been done on borborbor has been done by John Collins, a really well-known researcher who has lived in Ghana for most of his life and has been involved in a lot