Owen Coggins has studied Philosophy (BA) at King’s College and Religions (MA) at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He specialized in Music and Religions, researching such topics as apocalypse and political liberation..
Owen Coggins has studied Philosophy (BA) at King’s College and Religions (MA) at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He specialized in Music and Religions, researching such topics as apocalypse and political liberation in the gospel blues of Blind Willie Johnson, musical and experiential epistemologies in Rastafari. A dissertation on the performance of Sufi music in the UK was based on time spent playing music with the Hussain Brothers Qawwali group.
Owen is currently based in Toronto, where he is researching contemporary spirituality in noise music. He has previously lived, worked as a teacher, and played trumpet in the UK, Mexico, Bolivia, and Nepal.
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