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Mailing Address Music Department Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Phone/Fax Number(s) phone: 617-495-3188 fax: 617-496-8081

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Countries of Specialization Pakistan, India.

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Research Interests Ethnomusicologist. South Indian Classical (Karnatak/Carnatic) music, veena; tribal and folk music of India and Pakistan; the Nilgiri Hills; Ritual music associated with Shi'i (Shi'ah) Islam and Sufism. Issues: musical and cultural "style"; constructions of space, place, and time; phenomenology; Dravidian studies, linguistics; Tamil, Kota. Interested in cross-disciplinary work involving music, anthropology, linguistics, and religion. Primary Fieldwork: Madurai (1982-83; 1984-86); Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu (1990-92); Lahore, Pakistan (1996-98); Lucknow, India (1998-99). Book manuscript: The Black Cow's Footprint: Space, time and music in the life of the Kotas of South India

Teaching Interests South Asia-related Courses taught at Harvard: Music 190r (Undergrad and Grad): Music and Islamic Contexts: South and West Asia Music 190r: Vernacular Music of South Asia (Undergrad and Grad) Music 190rr: Music and Mediation in South Asia (Undergrad and Grad) Music 207r: Ethnomusicology of Space and Time (Grad Seminar) Music 207rr: Music and Mourning (Grad Seminar) Music 207r: Music and Ritual (Grad seminar) Music 190r: Classical Music of South India (Undergrad and Grad) Music 178r: Music Systems, Contexts, Performance (Undergrad)

Publications * Articles: 2003 "Return to tears: Musical mourning, emotion, and religious reform in two South Asian minority communities." In, The Living and the Dead: Social dimensions of death in South Asian religions, ed. Elizabeth Wilson. SUNY Press. 2002 "Tribal Music (Nilgiris)," South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia, eds. Claus, Mills, Diamond. Routledge. 2002 "Tribal Communities (Southern India)," South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia, eds. Claus, Mills, Diamond. Routledge. 2001 "Emotional dimensions of ritual music among the Kotas, a south Indian tribe." Ethnomusicology 45(3): 379-422. 2000 "Embodiment and ambivalence: Emotion in South Asian Muharram drumming." Yearbook for Traditional Music 32: 81-116. 2000/2001 "Three perspectives on music and the idea of tribe in India." Asian Music 32(1): 5-34. Special issue, "Tribal Music of India," ed., Roderic Knight. 2000/2001 "Mourning songs and human pasts among the Kotas of south India." Asian Music 32(1): 141-183. Special issue, "Tribal Music of India," ed., Roderic Knight. 2000 "Music in Seasonal and Life-Cycle Rituals." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol 5, South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent, ed. Alison Arnold, 272-87. New York: Garland Pub., Inc. 2000 "Tamil Nadu." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol 5, South Asia:The Indian Subcontinent, ed. Alison Arnold, 903-21. New York: Garland Pub., Inc. 1997 "Rain, God and Unity among the Kotas." In Blue mountains revisited, ed. Paul Hockings, 231-292. Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press. 1992 "The Kotas." In The Encyclopedia of World Cultures, vol. III South Asia, 134-38. Gen. ed. David Levinson. Boston: G. K. Hall. 1991 "Style and tradition in Karaikkudi vipna playing." Asian Theatre Journal 8(2): 118-41. "David Mandelbaum." In The International Encyclopedia of Anthropologists. Compiled by LARG, gen. editor Christopher Winters. New York: Garland.

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