Curriculum Vita
Daniel M. Neuman
Personal (updated March 2007)
Date of Birth
18 January, 1944
Place
Lausanne, Switzerland (U.S. Citizen, naturalized)
Married, two children
Education
1974
Ph.D. Anthropology (with distinction), University of Illinois
1967
Graduate Study in South Asian Studies, University of Chicago
1965
B.A. (Anthropology), University of Illinois
Academic Positions
1996-Present
Professor, Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA
1994-95
Visiting Professor, Department of Ethnomusicology, UCLA
1986-95
Professor of Music, University of Washington (Adjunct Professor in Anthropology).
1980-1985
Associate Professor of Music, University of Washington (Adjunct in Anthropology,1982-). Associate faculty in the Jackson School of International Studies. Center for Middle East Studies, 1983-85. South Asia Studies 1980-
1978-79
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Music, University of Washington
1974-80
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
1971-74
Instructor in Anthropology, Dartmouth College
Administrative Positions
2007
CEO and Executive Director, New Center for Arts and Culture, Boston
2002-2006
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UCLA
1996-2002
Dean, School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA
1995
Acting Dean, School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA
Chair, Department of Ethnomusicology at UCLA
1984-1994
Director, School of Music, University of Washington
1980-84
Head, Ethnomusicology Division, School of Music, University of Washington
Field Research and Professional Visits
2003
Brief photographic survey in Orissa and Rajasthan (December-January)
2001
Fieldwork for three months in Delhi and Rajasthan (October -December)
1994 - 1996
Archive and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), site visits and archive computerization consulting.
1993-1994
Archive and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), site visits and consulting.
1988-93
Chair of External Review Committee, College of Music, University of Oregon; Member, external review committee of the Wesleyan University Ph.D. program in Ethnomusicology; external reviewer of the graduate program in Ethnomusicology at York University.
Bi-national meetings (India and U.S.A.) of the American Institute of Indian Studies ( AIIS) and ARCE site visits
1991-92
Brief Field surveys in Kacch and Saurasthra districts in Gujarat state and Jodhpur and Barmer districts in Western Rajasthan
1989-90
Fieldwork in Western Rajasthan for ten months gathering data for the Ethnographic Atlas of Performing Arts Traditions of Rajasthan.
1987
Bi-national meeting AIIS and ARCE site visit.
1986-87
Symposium Chair, New Delhi (12/29/86-1/1/87.Bi-national meeting of the AIIS
1985
Bi-national meeting of the AIIS.
1984 and 1985
Festival of India Performing Arts audition meetings.
1981-84
Five short field trips and site visits to the Archives and Research Centre of Ethnomusicology in Delhi and Pune
1977-79
Three short term trips to India
1976-77
Ethnomusicological fieldwork in villages in Haryana and the Union Territory of Delhi on social organization and performance practices of rural musical specialists. (6 months)
1973-74
Ethnomusicological fieldwork in several North Indian cities collecting genealogical and census data on musician communities. (3 months)
1969-71
Ethnomusicological fieldwork in India on Hindustani Music Culture
1966
Fieldwork in Iran (summer)
1964
Archaeological fieldwork in Northern Arizona (summer)
Fellowships and Grants
1993
$15,000 grant addition from the UW for the World Music Navigator and video editing.
1992
UW Royalty Research Fund for World Music Navigator development. ($30,000)
1991
Smithsonian Institution Grants for the Archive and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology of the American Institute of Indian Studies ($120,000 total).( P.I.)
UW Graduate School Research Grant for Atlas Prototype ($7,000)
1990
Smithsonian Institution Grant for the Archive and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology of the American Institute of Indian Studies ($120,000 total).( P.I.)
Ford Foundation Equipment Grant for AIIS-ARCE ($110,000)
1989
AIIS Grant for fieldwork in India
1985-89
Smithsonian Institution Grants for the Archive and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology of the American Institute of Indian Studies (about $500,000). (P.I.)
NSF completion grant for UW Ethnomusicology Archives ($5000) (Total award on this grant totals $96,339.) P.I.
1986
Ford Foundation Grant for a Symposium in India titled Text, Tone and Tune”: $50.000. ( P.I.)
National Science Foundation Grant for the UW Ethnomusicology Archives (additional grant). $41,500. P.I.
1984-85
Ford Foundation Grant for Performing Arts, Festival of India : $250,000 : (P.I.)
National Science Foundation Grant: $50,000 (P.I.)
National Endowment for the Arts: $15,000 (Co-P.I.)
1981-84
Smithsonian Institution Grant for the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology in India: $300,000 (Co-P.I.)
1983
Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Washington
1982
National Endowment for the Arts: $20,000 (Co-P.I.)
1979
Smithsonian Institution Research Development Grant: $5000
1978
Smithsonian Institution Block Grant for Anthropology of Music panel at the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences: $20,000 (P.I.).
1978
ACLS Travel Grant (declined)
1978
Dartmouth College Faculty Fellowship
1976-77
American Institute of Indian Studies fieldwork grant: $15,000 (P.I.)
1969-71
National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship and Grant for fieldwork in India (P.I.)
1970
University of Illinois, Anthropology Department Grant
1967-68
NDFL Title VI Language Fellowship (Hindi)
1966
Mid-West Universities Consortium Grant for fieldwork in Iran
Publications
Books
2007
Bards,
Ballads and Boundaries: An Ethnographic Atlas of Music Traditions in West Rajasthan
Seagull, New York, 2007.
1993
Coordinating editor of Jon Higgins’ book, Music of Bharatnatyam, Oxford & IBH and AIIS, New Delhi
1991
Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History, (Co-editor and contributor), University of Illinois Press, Urbana
1990
The Life of Music in North India: The Organization of an Artistic Tradition , (with a new Preface by the author), republished by University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Originally published, 1980 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit. (Concurrently published in India by Manohar Press, New Delhi.)
Recordings
(All Video documentaries are co-produced and edited with Arundhati Sen Neuman and details about the most recent three are available at www.indiarts.com)
1999
Shujaat Live at Meany, (Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan concert), published by India Performing Arts, Los Angeles.
1998
Khandan, (Ustad Shujaat Husin Khan lineage of sitarists), published by India Performing Arts, Los Angeles.
1995
The Story of a Musician, (Ustad Yunus Husain Khan and the Agra Gharana) published by Apsara Media, Van Nuys.
1993
Live at Meany!, (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan concert), video published by the University of Washington Press, Seattle.
Articles
In Press ( 2007)
Bowing Bards. Proceedings of the Rotterdam Conservatory symposium of Indian music history.
2002
Discourse Media 1969:1999 in Music Archiving in the World, VWB Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, Berlin
2001
American Scholarship in India in American Understanding of India, Manohar Press, New Delhi
1998
The Ecology of Music in North America (reprint).
1995
Review of Sufi Music of India and Pakistan,by Regula Qureshi in Journal of Asian Studies.
1994
Aged Music in a New World in Voice, Journal of the Washington Music Educators Association
1992
Report on a Computerized Ethnographic Atlas in The World of Music, pp. 108-112, 34 (2)
Patronage and Performance of Indian Music in The Powers of Art: Patronage in Indian Culture, Barbara Stoler Miller, ed., Oxford University Press, New York
The Cultural Ecology of Indian Music Culture reprinted in Sociology of Oriental Music: A Reader, ed. O.P. Joshi, Illustrated Book Publishers, Jaipur.
1991
Epilogue: Paradigms and Stories in Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History, Blum, Bohlman & Neuman eds., University of Illinois Press, Urbana
1989
Music of South Asia in the Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
1988
Review of Khyal, Bonnie Wade, Cambridge University Press in Ethnomusicology 32:1.
1986
Indian Music As A Cultural System in Asian Music 17:1
1984
The Ecology of Indian Music in North America in Bansuri, 1. Reprinted in Bairavi, 2.
Review Essay of Sound and Sentiment, by Steven Feld, Ethnomusicology, 28,3.
Book Review of A Practical Introduction to Indian Music by Neil Sorrell and Ram Narayan, Asian Music, 15,2.
Record Review of Raga Puria Kalyan performed by Ram Narayan, Ethnomusicology, 28,2.
1982
Country Musicians and Their City Cousins: The Kinship of Folk and Classical Music Culture in North India. Report of the Twelfth Congress of the International Musicological Society. Barenreither-Verlag Kassel, Philadelphia.
1981
Book Review of Caste and Social Stratification Among Muslims of India , 2nd ed., by Imtiaz Ahmed. Journal of Asian Studies 40,2.
1979
Book Review of Musical Instruments of India by B.C. Deva, Journal of Asian Studies , 39,1.
Record Review of Master of the Sarangi , Ram Narayan. Asian Music, 11,1.
1978
Gharanas: The Rise of Musical Houses in Delhi and Neighboring Cities in Tradition and Change in Eight Urban Musical Cultures , Bruno Nettl, editor. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
Journey to the West in Contributions to Asian Studies , No. 12, E.J. Brill, Leiden.
1977
The Social Organization of Hindustani Music in Ethnomusicology, 21,2.
1976
Towards an Ethnomusicology of Culture Change in Asia in Asian Music, 7,2.
1974
Saraswati’s Changing Sound in the Journal of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, 21.
Papers and Lectures (Inv.=by invitation)
2003
Annual Bruno Nettl Lecture in Ethnomusicology, "Studying the Social Organization of Musicians in India"
2001
Schools of Art in the United States, delivered at the India International Center, New Delhi
Indian Music in American Universities delivered at the University of Delhi.
2000
Rethinking Gharanas: delivered (co-written with Dard Neuman) at Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Toronto, November.
Discourse Media 1969:1979:1989:1999: presented at the 100th Anniversary of the Berlin Phonogram Archiv, Berlin, October.
Creating Idenitities Through or As the 'Other, ' rapporteur, at conference on Musical Exotocism to World Music: Constructing Ends of Centuries, City University, London, July. (Inv.)
From Pre-modern to Postmodern Patronage, Lecture at the Annual Meetings of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March.
Women in Indian Music, Talk given to the Plato Society, UCLA, January.
1999
Issues in Indian Music, Chair, Society for Ethnomusicology annual meetings, Austin.
1998
Symposium on Music Conservatories in India, Chair, Indian Music Society, Bombay, April, (Inv.).
1997
The Last Dhari, paper delivered at the Symposium on Indian Music History at the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music. (December)
Woman Performers in India, paper and video delivered at the Conference on Woman in Indian Arts, Berkeley. (April)
1995
Mostly Muslim Musicians, delivered at Brown University symposium on Hindu Muslim Relations. (Inv.)
1993
Respondent at Society for Ethnomusicology Meetings round table on inter-displinary research.
World Music Navigator Demonstrations at the International Congress of Traditional Music annual meeting, Berlin. (Inv.)
Lecture and WMN demonstration at UCLA (Inv.)
Community, Geography and Performance delivered at a Social Science Research Council sponsored seminar at the University of Pennsylvania. (Inv.)
1992
Is World Music Taking over the World? presented at the National Association of Schools of Music meetings, Chicago, November 22, 1992. (Inv.)
Pilot World Music Navigator Demonstration at the annual meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Bellevue, October 22, 1992.
Indische Musik auf dem Weg nach Westen session at the Parampara Festival held in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. March 10-14, 1992. (Inv.)
1991
Musical Atlas of India Project. Pre-Conference meeting organized for the South Asia Meetings at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 31, 1991.
1989
Hindustani Music as World Music: The Modernity of Tradition, lecture at the University of Texas, Austin, April (Inv)
1988
Symposium Overview and Concluding Remarks at the Symposium on the History of Ethnomusicological Theory, University of Illinois (Urbana), April. (Inv).
On What We Know, But Know Not That We Know at a Seminar on New Modes of Musical Thought at Arizona State University. (Inv).
1987
The Invention and Structure of Instrumental Gharanas at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Ann Arbor.(Inv)
Canons of Musical Thought, session chair at the Annual Meetings of the American Musicological Society, New Orleans.
American Contributions to Scholarship on Indian Music at the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii. (Inv)
1986
Texts, Tones and Tunes, A Symposium. Chair and organizer, Archive and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, New Delhi, India (Dec.29-Jan 1, 1987)
Problems in the Study of Goan Music, International Congress of Traditional Music meeting on Portugal and the World, Cross Cultural Processes in Music. Lisbon, Dec.15-19. (Inv)
The DMA Degree in Music at the National Association of Schools of Music, Colorado Springs, November (Inv).
American Contributions to the Study of Indian Music at the Library of Congress, Seminar on American Perspectives on India. Washington, D.C., Oct. 23-25, 1986. (Inv).
The Impact of Indian Popular Music on other Genres Conference on Popular Musics in Asia, Cornell University, April 25-27.(Inv).
What Makes Rhythmic Imagery in Music?” Commentator with the Seattle Symphony, as part of the Musically Speaking series. (Inv).
1985
Now and Then, Here and There, paper (with Bruno Nettl), Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Vancouver (November 1985)
Patronage and Performance of Indian Music, Symposium on Patronage in Indian Culture, National Humanities Center, Triangle Park, (October, 1985). (Inv)
1984
The Sociology of Muslim Musicians in South Asia, Middle East Studies Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
Adaptability, Continuity and Change in Hindustani Music in the United States, Symposium on Asian Music in the United States, UCLA. (Inv.)
Bringing the Guru Back Home: A New Context and a New Role, Society for Ethnomusicology, Annual Meeting, Santa Monica. (Inv)
Things Our Gurus Taught Us, (Panel Chair, Organizer and Discussant), Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Santa Monica.
Professional Women Musicians in India at a Seminar on Women Music Makers of India, New Delhi.(Inv)
The Ecology of Indian Music in North America, Kent State University.(Inv)
The Culture of Indian Music, NEH sponsored Lecture Series on Indian Civilization at South Seattle Community College (Inv)
1983
Ethnomusicology and the New Technologies, International Congress of Traditional Musics, Columbia University, New York.(Inv)
Indian Music: Lecture and Demonstration (With Ustad Sabri Khan), NEH sponsored Lecture Series on Indian Textiles, Univ. of Washington (Inv).
1982
An Ethnomusicological Look at Indian Music, University of Delhi, Daulat Ram College.(Inv)
Shiva and Indian Music, Shiva Exhibit, Seattle Art Museum. (Inv)
1981
Indian Musical Traditions as Cultural Systems, Symposium on the Musician in the Islamic World, Arden House, Columbia University.(Inv)
International Congress for Traditional Music, Symposium on Language and Music, Respondent, University of Warsaw.(Inv)
1980
Ethnomusicological Perspectives on South Asia: The Current State of the Art, Society for Ethnomusicology meeting, Bloomington.
Hindustani Music: Lecture and Demonstration, Indian Studies Program, Davidson College.(Inv)
Hindu Music, Muslim Musicians, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Chicago. (Inv)
1979
Anthropology and the Culture of Indian Music, Anthropological Survey of India, Udaipur.(Inv)
1978
The Politics of Pedigrees, Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago.
Musical Styles and Social Structures, University of Washington.(Inv)
What Should We Mean by Muslim Castes?, University of British Columbia.
Anthropology and Ethnomusicology, Society for Ethnomusicology Chapter Meeting, Amherst College.
1977
The Urban Connection and Rural Contribution, XIIth Congress of the International Musicological Society, Berkeley.(Inv)
1976
Journey to the West, Canadian Association for South Asian Studies, Quebec City.(Inv)
1975
Towards the New Ethnomusicology, The Marshall Woods Lecture Series, Brown University.(Inv)
Schools of Musicians: An Anthropological Perspective, Society for Ethnomusicology Chapter Meeting, Wesleyan University.
1974
Hindustani Musicians, Their Social Organization and Dynamic Role, Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, San Francisco.
1973
Indian Musical Castes, Association of Asian Studies, Boston.
1972
The Musical Culture of India, Middlebury College.(Inv)
WebBased Projects
1993
World Music Navigator : A digital-based interactive music geography of the world. Utilizing vector maps, articles, video clips, sound, images and a glossary, users can “navigate” to different countries and learn about selected music traditions. Available on the Macintosh platform only, the program can be downloaded at: http://www.arts.ucla.edu/dneuman/WMN/MusicNav.sea
1989
The Travelers’ Project: A database of accounts of travelers to India regarding music and dance from 60 AD to 1950s, (with Alicia Lewis) available to download from http://www.arts.ucla.edu/dneuman/Traveler/traveler.xls
Participation in Professional Societies
2000
Questioning Received Wisdoms: Rethinking the Ethnomusicology of Hindustani Music, Panel Organizer and Chair (with Regula Qureshi), Society for Ethnomusicology annual meeting, Toronto (Nov).
1999
Avery Fisher Artist Program at Lincoln Center, member of the recommendation board.
Session Chair on Music of India, International Congress on Traditional Music, bi-annual meeting, Hiroshima,
1997-99
Member, editorial committee, Society for Ethnomusicology
1997
Ethnomusicology and the Academy, SEM Pre-Conference Discussant, Pittsburgh
ICTM Conference in Slovakia, Session Chair
1994-95
Member of the Committee on Ethnomusicology of the American Institute of Indian Studies
1993
Host for the annual meeting of NAMESU (National Association of Music Executives of State Universities), Orcas Island, Washington .
West Coast representative for the SEM National Committee of the ICTM.
1992
Host for the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology meetings, held in Bellevue, Washington.
1991
Organizer of the pre-conference all day meetings on the Atlas of Performing Arts Traditions of India, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
1988
Member, Indo-U.S. Sub-commission for Education and Culture.
Publications Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology.
Chair, Committee on Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies (re-elected to 1993).
Consultant, Indo-US Subcommission.
1987
Board of Trustees, Society for Ethnomusicology, Ann Arbor
Ethnomusicology Grantsmanship, panel member, Society for Ethnomusicology, Ann Arbor
Member, Executive Board, American Institute of India Studies
1986
Elected to the Nominations Committee of the National Association of Schools of Music (Nov.).
Elected to the Board of Trustees of the Society for Ethnomusicology
1985
Ethnomusicological Approaches to Western Art Music, Panel Organizer, Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Vancouver (November 1985).
Chair, Session on Translating Music (Comparative Study of Modal Systems), Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Vancouver (November 1985).
1985-88
Chair, Committee on Ethnomusicology for the American Institute of Indian Studies.
1985-87
Member, Executive Committee of the American Institute of Indian Studies.
1984-86
Chair, Committee on the Performing Arts for the Festival of India.
1984
President, Northwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
1983-84
Program Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology.
1983-85
Board of Trustees, American Institute of Indian Studies.
1983
Panel Chair, Society for Ethnomusicology, Northwest Chapter.
1982
Panel Chair on Music in Popular Culture. Society for Ethnomusicology, Northwest Chapter.
1980-84
Committee on Ethnomusicology, American Institute of Indian Studies, Member.
1979-82
Committee on Anthropology and Archaeology, member, Review Panel, Smithsonian Institution.
1979
Panel Chair on Musical Change, Society for Ethnomusicology.
Panel Chair on Politics and Fieldwork, Society for Ethnomusicology, Northwest Chapter.
1978
Chair of the Committee on Conferences, Society for Ethnomusicology.
Chair and Panel Organizer for three sessions on The Anthropology of Music. Xth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, New Delhi.
1976-78
Vice-President, Society for Ethnomusicology, North-East Chapter.
1976
Chair, Local Arrangements and Program,(Dartmouth College), Society for Ethnomusicology, North-East Chapter.
1975 Panel Chair, Music and Modernity, Northeastern Anthropological Association, Potsdam.
Chair and Panel Organizer, The Ethnomusicology of Culture Change in Asia, Association of Asian Studies, New England Chapter, Hartford.
Editorial Experience
1978-81
Associate Editor, Ethnomusicology
1977
Co-editor, American Ethnomusicology, Bicentennial issue of Essays in Arts and Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 1.
1976
Co-editor, The Ethnomusicology of Culture Change in Asia, Special Issue of Asian Music, 7:2.
Referee
National Science Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities
American Institute of Indian Studies
Smithsonian Institution
Humanities and Social Science Research Council of Canada
Various University Presses and Journals
Site visits for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Smithsonian Institution
Indo-Shastri Institute (Canada)
Indo-U.S. Subcommission
Accreditation Visits
Wesleyan University, (Department of Music)
York University, (Department of Music)
University of Oregon, (School of Music)
University of Michigan (University)
Consulting
Rialto Broadband Inc. (2000)
Rutgers University (1999)
Indo-U.S. Subcommission (1988)