DANIEL NEUMAN
Personal
Date of Birth 18th of 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
2011-13 Director of Graduate Studies
2010- Mohindar Brar
Sambhi Endowed Chair of Indian Music
1995- 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).
1980-85 Associate
Professor of Music, University of Washington (Adjunct in Anthropology, 1982-95).
Associate faculty in the Jackson School of Interna¬tional Studies. Center for
Middle East Studies, 1983-85. South Asia Stud¬ies 1980-95
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
2013-14 Interim Director, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
2007-08 Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, New Center for Arts and
Culture, Boston
2002-06 Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UCLA
1996-02 Dean, School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA
1995-96
Acting Dean, School of the Arts and Architecture and Chair, Department of
Ethnomusicology at UCLA
1984-94 Director, School of Music, University of
Washington
1980-84 Head, Ethnomusicology Division, School of Music,
University of Washington
Field Research and Professional Visits
2010-11 Field Research in India on Life Histories (Oct.– March)
2009-10
Field research in India on professional musicians. (Dec.– March)
2007
Brief Photographic survey in tribal areas of South Orissa and Chhattisgarh.
2003 Brief Field survey in tribal areas of South Orissa.
2002 Field
trip to Rajasthan and Delhi, India. (3 months)
2001 Chair of Arts
Academic Review Team, Brown University. (May)
1994-2000 Archive and
Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), site visits and archive
computerization consulting.
1993-94 Archive and Research Centre for
Ethnomusicology (ARCE), site visits and consulting.
1988-2000 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 Musicology at York
University. Member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
Re-accreditation Visiting Team for the University of Michigan.
1988-90
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.
1984-85 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 Ter¬ritory 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, Grants
and Awards
2014 Named to the Art Career Project’s list of “15 Noteworthy
Art Professors in Los Angeles.”
http://www.theartcareerproject.com/15-noteworthy-art-professors-los-angeles/9901/
2006 Chhandayan Jyotsna Award, New York, NY., May 2006
2004 Music
Forum Award for the Contribution to the Cause of Indian Music by Non-Indian
Personality, Mumbai, India, January 2004
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.)
1989 Ford Foundation Equipment Grant for AIIS-ARCE ($110,000).
AIIS Senior Fellowship for ten month field research 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 Sci¬ences: $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)
1965 Mid-West Universities Consortium Grant for fieldwork in Iran
Publications
Books
2014
Studying India’s Musicians: Four Decades of Selected Articles. Manohar Press,
New Delhi. (forthcoming)
2006 Bards, Ballads and Boundaries: An
Ethnographic Atlas of Music Cultures of West Rajasthan (co-authored with Shubha
Chaudhuri), Seagull Press, New York
1993 Coordinating editor of Jon
Higgins’, Music of Bharatnatyam, Oxford & IBH and AIIS, New Delhi
1991
(2001) Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History, (Co-editor and contribu¬tor),
University of Illinois Press, Urbana. [Chinese-language edition published 2009,
People’s Music Publishing House]
1990 (1980) The Life of Music in North
India: The Organization of an Artistic Tradi¬tion, (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.)
Published Audio
Recordings
2012 Musician Communities of Rajasthan - Surnaiya Langa.
Performance by Dodha Fakir: Published by Smithsonian Folkways, Washington DC, on
the ARCE (Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology) label, collected and
recorded by Daniel Neuman. (Original recording 1991).
http://www.folkways.si.edu/dodha-fakir/musician-communities-of-rajasthan-surnaiya-langa/india-world/music/album/smithsonian
Musician Communities of Rajasthan – Dholi. Performance by Women of the
Dholi community: Published by Smithsonian Folkways, Washington DC, on the ARCE
(Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology) label, collected and recorded
by Daniel Neuman. (Original recording 1990).
http://www.folkways.si.edu/women-of-the-dholi-community/musician-communities-of-rajasthan-dholi/india-world/music/album/smithsonian
Musician Communities of Rajasthan - Champa Methi. Performance by
Champa and Methi: Published by Smithsonian Folkways. (Original recording 1990).
http://www.folkways.si.edu/champa-and-methi/musicians-of-rajasthan/india-world/music/album/smithsonian
2006 Musical Instruments of Rajasthan: The Kamaicha (performed by
Sakar Khan), published by Smithsonian Folkways, Washington DC, on the ARCE
(Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology) label, collected and recorded
by Daniel Neuman. (Original recording 1990).
http://www.folkways.si.edu/sakar-khan/musical-instruments-of-rajasthan-the-kamaicha/india-world/music/album/smithsonian
Musician Communities of Rajasthan: The Manganiar, published by
Smithsonian Folkways, Washington DC, on the ARCE (Archives and Research Centre
for Ethnomusicology) label, collected and recorded by Daniel Neuman. (Original
recording 1989-1990).
http://www.folkways.si.edu/musician-communities-of-rajasthan-the-manganiar/india-world/music/album/smithsonian
Video Recordings
(All Video documentaries are co-produced and edited
with Arundhati Sen Neuman. Details about the most recent three are available at
www.indi¬arts.com)
1999 Shujaat Live at Meany, (Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan
concert), published by India Performing Arts, Los Angeles.
1998 Khandan,
(Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan lineage of sitarists), published by India Performing
Arts, Los Angeles.
1995 The Story of a Musician, (Ustad Yunus Husain Khan
and the Agra Gha¬rana) published by Apsara Media, Van Nuys.
1993 (1998)
Nusrat! Live at Meany!, (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan concert), published by the
University of Washington Press, Seattle. Released in a new edition by Arab Film
Distribution in 1998.
Photographs
Published in numerous
brochures, advertisements and CD booklets of musicians including A.J. Racy,
Shujaat Khan and Vladimir Chernov as well as books by me and Timothy Rice
(“Ethnomusicological Encounters...” and most recently in “Ethnomusicology: A
Very Short Introduction.” OUP. 2014,
p. 55 and “Studying India’s Musicians”
Manohar 2014 (forthcoming).
Articles
2015 The Times They Are
a-Changin’ in Festschrift for Bruno Nettl, Philip Bohlman & Levine, Eds.
(Forthcoming 2015)
2014 Separate Realities in Theory and Method in
Historical Ethnomusicology (McCollum & Hebert, eds. (Forthcoming, 2014).
Lexington books
2013 Indian Music and the English Language Fifty
Years Later. Plenary Session: Proceedings of the International Seminar on
‘Creating & Teaching Music Patterns, Kolkata 16-18 December, 2013.
http://sitardivin.globat.com/seminar/proceedings/index/plenary-session/
2012 Bruno Nettl/Daniel Neuman Interview in the SEM Newsletter (May)
2011
String Theory in Ethnomusicological Encounters with Music and Musicians: Essays
in Honour of Robert Garfias, edited by Timothy Rice, Ashgate Press
2010
Bowing Bards, in Hindustani Music: Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries. Manohar,
New Delhi
2002 Discourse Media 1969:1999 in Music Archiving in the World,
VWB Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, Berlin
2001 An Ethnography of
the American Experience of Indian Music in American Understanding of India: A
Symposium, Manohar Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi
1998 "Ecology
of Indian Music in North America." (Reprint) In Indische Musik in Deutschland:
Gegenwart Und Zukunft, edited by Jens Eckert. (Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 1998).
208-21.
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 Univer¬sity Press, New York
The Cultural Ecology of Indian Music Culture reprinted in Sociology of
Ori¬ental 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 Ethno¬musicology 32:1.
1985 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 Bhairavi, 2.
Review Essay of
Sound and Sentiment, by Steven Feld, Ethnomusicol¬ogy, 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 Puriya Kalyan performed by Ram
Narayan, Eth¬nomusicology, 28,2.
1981 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.
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)
2014 Women Music Makers in India, (Organized Panel) at the 59th
Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Pittsburgh, November 13-16.
Roundtable – Reflections on Two Classic Works on their Fiftieth Anniversary:
Bruno Nettl’s Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology and Alan Merriam’s The
Anthropology of Music at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for
Ethnomusicology, Pittsburgh, November 13-16. (Inv.)
“Who Teaches, Who
Learns?” Paper read at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. March 22, 2014. (Inv)
2013 Paper read at the Department of Music, Rabindra Bharati University
International Seminar, Kolkata, India. 12/16 to 12/18/2013. (Inv)
“User
Manual.” University of Illinois Lecture for the 60th anniversary of musicology
at the U of I. 10/25/2013. (Inv)
“Audio Cultures of India” presentation,
University of Chicago, 9/15/2013. (Inv)
Three-day Residency and invited
Lecture “Biography | Genealogy | History: Hindustani Music History Making” at
the University of Texas, Austin. (4/10-4/12) (Inv)
2012 Center for India
and South Asia (CISA) Lecture, “A Sesquicentennial of Hindustani Music History”
at UCLA (May) (Inv)
2010 Member, Panel on the Launch of the Baul Archive,
American Center, Kolkata (Inv)
Panelist on Some New Scientific
Approaches to Music, Indian Musicological Society, Mumbai (Inv)
2009
Separate Realities: Hindustani Music and its Histories, UCLA Sambhi Chair in
Indian Music Lecture
Keynote Lecture: Great, Little and Now Fragmented
Traditions? at the University of Chicago for the Symposium on Sound, Work, and
Media in South Asian Cities (Inv)
Commencement Speaker, University of
Illinois School of Music. Being in the Groove, Being in a Rut: A Natural History
of Telling the Difference (published in Sonorities, The Newsletter of the UI
School of Music). (Inv)
2006 Indian Music for Scientists at the Sciences
Board of Visitors Meeting, University of California, Los Angeles, April. (Inv)
2005 Four Decades of South Asian Music Studies in North America (Chair,
Discussant and Organizer) at the 50th Annual Meeting, Society for
Ethnomusicology, Atlanta, Georgia, November.
2004 The Values of Studying
Indian Music at the University of California Senior International Leaders
Council Meeting, University of California, Los Angeles, December 2004 (Inv)
UCLA Organizational Structure at the joint meeting of Emeriti and UCLA
Retirees Association, Los Angeles, California, June.
2003 Studying the Social
Organization of Musicians India: The Bruno and Wanda Nettl Distinguished Lecture
in Ethnomusicology, University of Illinois
2001 Teaching Hindustani Music
in the U.S.: delivered at the University of Delhi. (Inv)
Schools of Arts
in American Universities: delivered at the India Interna¬tional Centre, New
Delhi. (Inv)
2000 Rethinking Gharanas: delivered (with Dard Neuman as
co-author) at Annual Meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Toronto, November.
Discourse Media 1969|1999: presented at the meeting of the 100th Anniversary
of the Berlin Phonogramm Archiv, Berlin, October. (Inv)
Creating
Identities Through or as the ‘Other: Rapporteur at the Conference on Musical
Exoticism to World Music: Constructing Ends of Centuries, City University,
London, July 2000. (Inv)
The Arts: delivered at las Donas “Seize the Day:
The Millennial Manifesto”, UCLA, March 2000. (Inv)
Women in Indian Music:
delivered at the Plato Society Colloquium, UCLA, January 2000. (Inv)
From
Pre-modern to Postmodern Patronage: delivered at the Meetings of the Association
for Asian Studies, San Diego
1999 History of the Arts at UCLA: delivered
at the Pioneer Bruins Alumni Reunion, UCLA, November 1999. (Inv)
1997 The
Last Dhari: paper delivered at the Symposium on Indian Music His¬tory 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 interdisciplinary research.
World
Music Navigator: Demonstrations at the International Congress of Traditional
Music annual meeting, Berlin. (Inv)
Lecture and World Music Navigator
demonstration at UCLA. (Inv)
Community, Geography and Performance:
delivered at the Social Science Research Council sponsored seminar at the
University of Pennsylvania. (Inv)
1992 Is World Music Taking over the
World?: presented at the National Asso¬ciation of Schools of Music meetings,
Chicago, November 22, 1992. (Inv)
Pilot World Music Navigator
Demonstration: presented at the annual meetings of the Society for
Ethnomusicology, Bellevue, October 22, 1992.
Indische Musik auf dem Weg
nach Westen session: presented at the Paramparaa Fes¬tival 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.
1989 Hindustani Music as World
Music: The Modernity of Tradition, Lecture delivered at the University of Texas,
Austin
1988 Symposium Overview and Concluding Remarks at the Symposium on
the History of Ethnomusicological Theory, University of Illinois (Urbana). (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)
American Contributions to Scholarship
on Indian Music at the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii.
(Inv)
1986 Problems in the Study of Goan Music, International Congress of
Tradi¬tional Music meeting on Portugal and the World, Cross Cultural Pro¬cesses
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 at
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 Meet¬ing, Society for
Ethnomusicology, Vancouver, November 1985
Patronage and Performance of
Indian Music, Symposium on Patronage in Indian Culture, National Humanities
Center, Triangle Park, October. (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, Soci¬ety 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 Univer¬sity. (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 Musi¬cian in the Islamic World, Arden House, Columbia
University. (Inv)
Symposium on Language and Music, Respondent at the
International Con¬gress for Traditional Music, 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)
Web Based 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 via ftp at: ftp1.arts.ucla.edu/wmn/ MusicNav.sea
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
ftp1.arts.ucla.edu/dneuman/Traveler/trav¬eler.xls
Recent
Photograph Credits
2005-2012 Miscellaneous photographic portraits of
celebrated musicians published in their recordings, posters and other ephemera.
2006 Smithsonian Global Sound (SGS): A project of the Smithsonian Center for
Folklife and Cultural Heritage. At http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org
David P. McAllester Obituary, SEM Newsletter, Volume 40, Number 4, page 18,
September 2006
2003 Judith O.Becker, SEM Newsletter, Volume 34, Number 4,
page 1, September 2003
Participation in Professional Societies
1999- Member, Recommendation
Board, Avery Fisher Artist Program at Lincoln Center.
2005-2011
Chair, Society for Ethnomusicology Development Committee
2005- Member,
Executive Committee, Indian Musicological Society, Mumbai.
Moderator,
panel on “Envisioning Ethnomusicology1: Lineages and Legacies” at the 40th UW
Anniversary of Ethnomusicology Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, WA,
April 2005.
2006- Member, Society for Ethnomusicology Special Interest
Group for South Asian Performing Arts.
2002-06 Member, Imagining America
Consortium, University of Michigan.
2002-06 Member, Association of
American Universities, Washington DC
2006 Chair, panel on “South Asia 2”
at Society for Ethnomusicology 51st Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, November.
2002-04 Member, Los Angeles World Affairs Council, California.
2001
Chair, ICTM panel on “New problems for Ethnomusicological Sound Archives” Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
2000 Organizer and co-chair, SEM panel, “Questioning
Received Wisdoms,” Toronto, November.
Discussant, SEM panel, “”Musical
Enactment of Social Difference,” Tor¬onto, Nov. 2000
Chair, panel on
“India: Preservation, Fieldwork and Archives” at the meeting of the 100th
Anniversary of the Berlin Phonogramm Archiv, Berlin, October.
1999 Chair,
Panel on “Issues in Indian Music,” Society for Ethnomusicology meetings, Austin.
Chair, Panel on Music of India, ICTM Conference, Hiroshima, August 1999.
1998-99 Member, editorial committee, Society for Ethnomusicology.
1998 Symposium on Music Conservatories in India, Indian Music Society, Bombay
(April).
1997 Ethnomusicology and the Academy, SEM Pre-Conference
Session, Discussant, Pittsburgh.
ICTM Conference in Slovakia, Session
Chair.
Member, editorial Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology.
1995-02 Member, International Council of Fine Arts Deans.
1995-02 Member,
European League of Institutes of the Arts.
1994-95 Member of the
Committee on Ethnomusicology of the American Insti¬tute 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 meet¬ings, 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).
1987 Canons of Musical Thought, session chair at
the Annual Meetings of the American Musicological Society, New Orleans.
Board of Trustees, Society for Ethnomusicology, Ann Arbor
Ethnomusicology
Grantsmanship, panel member, Society for Ethnomusi¬cology, Ann Arbor.
Member, Executive Board, American Institute of India Studies.
1986 Texts,
Tones and Tunes, A Symposium. Chair and organizer, Archive and Research Centre
for Ethnomusicology, New Delhi, India (Dec.29-Jan 1, 1987).
Elected to
the Nominations Committee of the National Association of Schools of Music.
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.
Chair, Session
on Translating Music (Comparative Study of Modal Sys¬tems), Annual Meeting,
Society for Ethnomusicology, Vancouver, November.
1985-88 Chair,
Committee on Ethnomusicology for the American Institute of Indian Studies.
1985-87 Member, Executive Committee of the American Institute of Indian
Stud¬ies.
1984-86 Chair, Committee on the Performing Arts for the
Festival of India. (Organized the tour of five different ensembles for the 1985
Festival of India Performances at 60 universities throughout the country).
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 Asso¬ciation, 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)