Dr Lizzie Ogle

Dr. Lizzie Ogle is a musician, music educator and researcher, with a focus on Afro-Brazilian musical, rhythmic and spiritual practices, eco-musicology and decolonial research. Alongside regular musical performance, creation and education, she completed her PhD in Ethnomusicology at King’s College London in 2020, and has since lectured at SOAS University of London on topics including music and colonialism, music and ecology, decolonial research methods, Afro-diasporic music traditions, trance, embodiment and divinity.

Her recently published ethnographic monograph, Rhythm, Ancestrality and Spirit in Maracatu de Nação and Candomblé, examines how the highly percussive carnival practice of Maracatu de nação – an Afro-Brazilian musical and spiritual tradition originating in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco – has evolved in relation to the cosmology of Candomblé Nagô in the urban centres of Recife and Olinda, Brazil.

As a musician, Lizzie has performed extensively across the UK, as well as internationally. Her musical endeavours combine ethnomusicological research-in-practice with a deep-rooted understanding of music as a fundamental and potent response to the cultural, social and ecological challenges of these times. One of Lizzie's musical projects, percussion and vocal collective Baque Luar, won the Resurgence Trust's 'Eco-Anthem of the Year' competition in 2025, and she continues to work in this eco-musicological capacity with a variety of projects.