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Stephen M. Slawek

Curriculum Vitae

10008 Sausalito Drive Butler School of Music Austin, TX 78759-6106 The University of Texas at Austin (512) 921-6739 Austin, TX. 78712-0435 (512) 471-0671 Education

1986 Ph.D. (Ethnomusicology) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1978 M.A. (Ethnomusicology) University of Hawaii at Manoa 1976 M. Mus. () Banaras Hindu University 1974 B. Mus. (Sitar) Banaras Hindu University 1973 Diploma () Banaras Hindu University 1971 B.A. (Biology) University of Pennsylvania

Employment

1999-present Professor of Ethnomusicology, The University of Texas at Austin 2011 (summer) Visiting Scholar, Music Department, Hong Kong Baptist University 2000 Visiting Professor, Rice University, Hanzsen and Lovett College 1989-1999 Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin 1985-1989 Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin 1983-1985 Instructor of Ethnomusicology and Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin 1983 Visiting Lecturer of Ethnomusicology, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign 1982 Graduate Assistant, School of Music, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign 1978-1980 Archivist, Archives of Ethnomusicology, School of Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Administrative and Committee Service to the University

Division Head, Musicology/Ethnomusicology, Butler School of Music (1996-2000; 2010-2016) Faculty Coordinator. NAPA-BSOM University Partnership. South Asia Institute (2013- 2016). Member, VAPA Core Assessment Committee, College of Undergraduate Studies (2015) Member, Advisory Committee, South Asia Institute (2009) Member, Search Committee for Scholar of African-American Music, School of Music (2007) SLAWEK- curriculum vitae 2

Member, Search Committee for Scholar of Middle Eastern Music, School of Music (2006) Member, Search Committee for Scholar of Latin American Music, School of Music (2006) Member, Graduate Assembly Academic Affairs Committee 2006-07 Member, Committee A, Faculty Development Program, Graduate School, The University of Texas at Austin (2005 - 2008) Chair, Memorial Resolution Committee for Gerard Béhague (2005) Member, Search Committee for American Popular Music, School of Music (2005) Member, College of Fine Arts Academic Dismissal Committee (2005) Member, Search Committee for American Popular Music, School of Music (2004) Member, Music/Performing Arts Center Committee (2003-present) Division Head, Musicology/Ethnomusicology, School of Music (1996-2000) Chair, Search Committee for Position in Americanist Musicology (1999-2000) Chair, Search Committee for Position in 18th Century Musicology (1999-2000) Member, Academic Affairs Committee, School of Music (1996-98; 2018- ) Member, Special Programs Committee, School of Music (1996-present) Chair, Search Committee for the Endowed Chair in Music History (1996-97) Chair, Search Committee for Junior Positions in Musicology (1996-97) Member, Student Awards Committee, School of Music (1995-97) Member, FLAS Selection Committee, Department of Asian Studies (1996-98; 1999/2000) Member, College of Fine Arts Summer Research/Creativity Awards Committee (1995- 96) Member, Fine Arts Microcomputer Laboratory Committee (1993-95) Member, Graduate Academic Affairs Committee, School of Music (1992-94) Member, Search Committee for Black Music Position in Ethnomusicology (1992-93) Member, Special Programs Committee, School of Music (1989-91) Member, College of Fine Arts Writing Committee (1988-92) Member, Student Awards Committee, Department of Music (1988-91) Chair, Course Committee, Center for Asian Studies (1988-91) Member, Library Committee, Department of Music (1987-94) Member, Executive Committee, Center for Asian Studies (1987-94) Supervisor, Ethnomusicology Archives, Department of Music (1986-present) Organizer, South Asia Special Seminar '89, Center for Asian Studies (1988-89) Member, Committee for the South Asia Seminar, Center for Asian Studies (1986-88) Member, Graduate Academic Affairs Committee, The Department of Music (1986-88)

Professional Public Service to the Nation, State and Community

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Society for Asian Music 2010-present. Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Society for Ethnomusicology 2010-2013. Member, Board Nominating Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2011. Chair, Ethnomusicology Committee, American Institute of Indian Studies, 2006 - 2014 Editor, Asian Music Journal, 2002-2010 Board member, Society for Asian Music (2002-2011) SLAWEK- curriculum vitae 3

Member, Ethnomusicology Committee, American Institute of Indian Studies, 1999-2014 Chair, Board Nominating Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2000-2001 Second Vice-President, Society for Ethnomusicology, 1999-2000 Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, SEM 1999, Society for Ethnomusicology (1997- 1999) Council member, Society for Ethnomusicology (1991-1994) Founding Member of the Board, Circle of Austin, 1990 Advisory Member of the Board, Indo-American Association, Houston (1995-present) Member of the Advisory Board, MIT Heritage of the Arts of Southasia (1995-present) Creator and Director of The Shankar Series for Asian Performing Arts, The University of Texas at Austin (1989-present) Member, Ad Hoc Committee, American Institute of Indian Studies (1993-1994)

Occasional Consultant

Department of Music, Pennsylvania State University. External reviewer for a tenure/promotion file (Summer 2019). American Council of Learned Societies. Fellowship application reviewer (2017 and 2018). Arts Faculty, University of Auckland. External reviewer for a tenure/promotion file (Fall 2017). Department of Performing Arts, Georgetown University. External reviewer for a tenure/promotion file (Spring 2017). Department of Music, Stanford University. External reviewer for a tenure/promotion file (2016). Department of Music, University of Chicago. External reviewer for a tenure/promotion file (2016). W. W. Norton and Company. External reviewer of Norton Rock Anthology: Insightful and Hard-to-Find Essays on Rock ‘n’ Roll, edited by Tim Riley. W. W. Norton and Company. External reviewer of Kay Shelemay’s Soundscapes (2nd edition). 2005 Oxford University Press. External reviewer of Waterman and Starr, American Popular Music: The Rock Years. 2007 Oxford University Press. External reviewer of David Brackett, The Pop, Rock, and Soul Reader, second edition. 2008 Department of Music, New York University. External reviewer for a tenure/promotion file (2008). Department of Music, Harvard University. External reviewer for a tenure/promotion file (2009). Department of Music, University of California-Santa Cruz. External reviewer for a tenure/promotion file (2012). Lamont School of Music, University of Denver. External reviewer for a tenure/promotion file (2012). Department of South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania. External reviewer for a tenure/promotion file (2008). SLAWEK- curriculum vitae 4

Music Department, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. External Consultant to review the musicology program. Occasional fellowship proposal reviewer for the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. Occasional performing arts fellowship proposal reviewer for the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Honors, Fellowships, Grants, Awards

Butler Faculty Development Award, Spring 2018 Butler Faculty Development Award, Spring 2017 Faculty Research Award, UT-Austin, Fall 2010. Creative Research Stipend, College of Fine Arts, UT-Austin (Summer 2009) ~FAST Tex Award, Center for Instructional Technology (2004/2005), to create a unified, multi-media lecture presentation for my course, MUS 307 History of Rock Music Dean’s Fellowship, College of Fine Arts, UT-Austin (2003), for research on jazz guitarists Project Quest Computer Grant to create a Web-based course resource (1997) Ducloux Fine Arts Faculty Fellowship (1995) University Research Institute Faculty Research Award (1991-92) Senior Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies/NEH (1991-92) College of Fine Arts Research/Creative Activity Summer Award (1989) University Research Institute Special Research Grant, (1987) Junior Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies (1980-81) Dissertation Research Award, Graduate College, University of Illinois (1980) Graduate Citation, Department of Music, University of Hawaii (1978) Travel Award, Culture Learning Institute, East-West Center (1977) Degree Grant, Culture Learning Institute, East-West Center (1976) [for graduate study in ethnomusicology] Gold Medal for Standing First in M.Mus., Department of Music, Banaras Hindu University (1976)

Academic Advising, Counseling, and other Student Services

2011-2012 Area Counselor, Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology 2008-2010 Area Counselor, Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology 1996-present Co-Area Counselor, Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology 1989-1994 Adviser, B.A. in Music (responsible for students with surnames A-L) 1985-1994 Adviser, B.A. in Music

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Scholarship and Creative Activities

Books in progress Turning Traditional Music Cosmopolitan: on the Global Stage.

1997 Musical Instruments of North : Eighteenth Century Portraits by Baltazard Solvyns. Delhi: Manohar Publishers. Pp. i-vi and 1-153. (with Robert L. Hardgrave)

1987 Sitar Technique in Nibaddh Forms. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, Indological Publishers and Booksellers. Pp. i-xix and 1-232.

Articles in scholarly journals

1996 In , in Tala, Out of Culture?: Problems and Prospects of a Hindustani Musical Transplant in Central Texas. Proceedings of the Sangeet Research Academy (West) Symposium: Indian Music and the West, November 29 - December 2, 1996, Bombay, India, pp. 181-192.

1996 Engrossed Minds, Embodied Moods and Liberated Spirits in Two Musical Traditions of India. Bansuri: 31-41.

1996 The Definition of Kirtan: An Historical and Geographical Perspective. Journal of Vaisnava Studies (Special issue on Vaisnava Music) 4/2:57- 113.

1994 The Study of Performance Practice as a Research Method: A South Asian Example. International Journal of Musicology 3:9-22.

1989 Instruments and Musical Culture in Eighteenth Century India: The Solvyns Portraits. (with Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr.). Asian Music XX:1- 92.

1988 Popular Kirtan: Some 'Great' Aspects of a Little Tradition. Ethnomusicology 32/2: 249-264.

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Essays in collections of essays

2015 The Urge to Merge: Are Recent Experiments in Fusion Music Destroying Hindustani Sangita?, in Philip Bohlman and Victoria Levine, eds., This Thing Called Music. Lanham/Boulder/New York/London: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 447-457.

2009 Hindustani Sitar and Jazz Guitar Music: A Foray into Comparative Improvology. In Gabriel Solis and Bruno Nettl, eds., Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, pp. 200-220.

2004 “No parar”: términos, prácticas y procedimientos de improvisación en la música instrumental hindustaní. In Bruno Nettl y Melinda Russell, eds., En el transcurso de la interpretación: Estudios sobre el mundo de la improvisación musical. Madrid: Ediciones Akal, pp. 317-346. (Spanish translation of Slawek 1998).

1998 Keeping It Going: Terms, Practices and Processes of Improvisation in Hindustani Instrumental Music. In Bruno Nettl, ed., In the Course of Performance: Studies in the World of Musical Improvisation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, pp. 335-68.

1990 Ravi Shankar as Mediator between a Traditional Music and Modernity. In Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History. Stephen Blum, Philip Bohlman, and Daniel Neuman, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp. 161-180.

Articles/Entries in Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

2019 “Ethnotheory.” In Janet Sturman and J. Geoffrey Golson, eds., The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture.

2012 “.” In Charles Hiroshi Garrett, ed. The Grove Dictionary of American Music. Oxford University Press.

2001 Ravi Shankar. In Stanley Sadie, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 23, London: Macmillan, pp. 202-203.

2001 Uday Shankar. In Stanley Sadie, ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 23, London: Macmillan, pp. 203-204.

1999 Hindustani Instrumental Music. Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia. New York: Garland Publishing, pp. 188-208.

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1999 Master-Disciple Tradition. Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia. New York: Garland Publishing, pp. 457-467.

1989 Musical Instruments. In Erik Barnouw, ed. The International Encyclopedia of Communications. Oxford University Press/University of Pennsylvania, v. 3, pp. 146-153.

Miscellaneous

2004 “Musical Instruments” (co-authored with Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr.). In A Portrait of the Hindus: Balthazar Solvyns & the European Image of India 1760-1824, by Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Book Reviews

2018 The Voice in the Drum: Music, Language, and Emotion in Islamicate South Asia, by Richard K. Wolf. In Ethnomusicology Forum (online).

2016 Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music, by Matthew Rahaim. Ethnomusicology 59/3:182-186.

2007 Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition, by Janaki Bakhle. Ethnomusicology 51/3: 506-12.

2002 Time in Indian Music: Rhythm, Metre, and Form in North Indian Rag Performance, by Martin Clayton. Yearbook for Traditional Music 34:194-95

2002 Music of the Raj: A Social and Economic History of Music in Late Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Indian Society, by Ian Woodfield. Notes :79- 81. 1999 Indian Music and the West, by Gerry Farrell. Yearbook for Traditional Music 31:138-139.

1999 Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India, by Bonnie C. Wade. Notes 56/2:395-97.

1997 Music and Musical Thought in Early India, by Lewis Rowell. Indiana Theory Review 18/1:115-120.

1995 Hi-Tech Shiva, by Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy. In Ethnomusicology 39/1:136- 139.

1995 Sitar and in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Allyn Miner. In Notes 51/3:933-935. SLAWEK- curriculum vitae 8

1991 The Saman Chants: A Review of Research, by G. H. Tarlekar. In Ethnomusicology 35/1:146-147.

1990 Sitar Music of Calcutta: An Ethnomusicological Study, by James Sadler Hamilton. In Bansuri 7:22-28.

1989 : Creativity within North India's Classical Music Tradition by Bonnie Wade. In The Yearbook of the International Council for Traditional Music. 21:143-145.

1989 Shaiva Devotional Songs of Kashmir by Constantina Rhodes Bailly. In South Asia in Review. 13/4: 24.

1989 Essays in Musicology. R. C. Mehta, ed. In Ethnomusicology 33/1: 169- 170.

1984 Dance and Music in South Asian Drama: Report of Asian Traditional Performing Arts 1981. Richard Emmert et al., ed. In The Yearbook of the International Council for Traditional Music 16: 130-31.

1984 Learning Indian Music: A Systematic Approach, by Ravi Shankar. In the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education no. 77: 187-88.

Record Review

1995 . Afternoon : Bhimpalasri, Multani. In Ethnomusicology 39/3:520-23.

Video Reviews

2002 The Musical Instruments of Kacch and Its Neighbours. In Asian Music 34/1:170-173

2001 Khyal: The Classical Singing of North India. In Ethnomusicology 45/2:377-78.

Recordings

2016 Ragas Kirwani and Kaushi Kanada, with , tabla. CD recording for MEERA MUSIC, India.

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2001 Raga Suddh Basant. Music for the production Indian Culture on CD- ROM, compiled by Gerald Larson. (From my sitar performance with Sukhvinder Singh providing tabla accompaniment)

1999 Selected examples of Hindustani classical music. Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia. New York: Garland Publishing. (From personal field recordings)

Invited Papers/Lectures

2019 The Emergence of Indian Classical Music in Central Texas: Community and Anti-Community in Action. A presentation in the Global Musics and Musical Communities conference held in the Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA, May 10-11, 2019.

2015 The BSOM-NAPA University Partnership: Ethnomusicological Exigencies in a Musico-Political Partnership. Society for Ethnomusicology, annual meeting, Austin, Texas.

2013 Fusion or Confusion?: Assessing the Impact of Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Hindustani Music. Society for Ethnomusicology, annual meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana.

2013 “Sonic Manifestations of the Divine” Revisited: Resonances, Recombinations, and Transformations. A presentation for the symposium, Translated Tunes: Negotiations of Space, Genre, Identity in Kirtan, held on May 4, 2013 at Stanford University, supported by the Stanford Arts Institute. Co-sponsored by the Department of Music, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for South Asia, and the Department of Religious Studies.

2009 “The Concertos of Ravi Shankar.” Lecture-demonstration for the Music Department, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.

2009 “Recent Experimental Compositions in the Classical Music of North India,” Baylor University Lyceum Series, School of Music.

2008 A Tale of Two Concertos: Inauthentic Authenticity and Authentic Inauthenticity in Ravi Shankar’s Orchestral Works. India and the World: Intercultural Performing Arts, an international conference sponsored by the Department of Musicology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2008 Themes Past, Present and Future in the Ethnomusicology of South Asia. Sangeet Research Academy (West) annual conference, Mumbai, India SLAWEK- curriculum vitae 10

2006 Can Improvisation Be Taught?: A Comparison of Didactic Strategies in Two Improvisational Traditions. Sangeet Research Academy (West) annual conference, Mumbai, India

2005 Desperately Seeking Sarasvati: Themes Past, Present and Future in the Ethnomusicology of South Asia. Society for Ethnomusicology, annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.

2004 Going Global: The Cultural Predicament of Hindustani Music. A presentation at the symposium Indian Classical Music: From Princely Court to Carnegie Hall, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

2004 Paradigms, Processes and Practices in Jazz Guitar and Indian Sitar Music: A Foray into Comparative Improvology. A presentation at the conference New Direction in the Study of Improvisation, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2003 “In Search of a Lost Chord”: Putting Nostalgia to Work in Rediscovering Joe Sgro and the South Philly “” of Jazz Guitar. Society for Ethnomusicology, annual meeting, Miami, Florida.

2001 Experiencing Music History: Reflections on a Musical Association with Ravi Shankar. Krannert Center for Performing Arts. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2001 "The Space Between Us All": Random Musings on the Othering of the Sitar. Musicology Colloquium Series. School of Music, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Also delivered at Syracuse University, co- sponsored by the Department of Fine Arts and the Global Affairs Institute of the Maxwell School.

2000 It's All in the Raga: The Musical Basis of a Gharana's Identity. Society for Ethnomusicology, annual meeting (Toronto 2000).

2000 A Cultural Predicament: The ABC[D]s of Hindustani Music in Central Texas. Symposium on The Community as Classroom, Department of Music, The University of Hawaii at Manao.

1996 In Raga, in Tala, Out of Culture?: Problems and Prospects of a Hindustani Musical Transplant in Central Texas. Proceedings of the Sangeet Research Academy (West) Symposium: Indian Music and the West, November 29 - December 2, 1996, Bombay, India.

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1995 Engrossed Minds, Embodied Moods and Liberated Spirits in Two Musical Traditions of India. Society for Ethnomusicology, National Meeting, Los Angeles, California. (unread due to circumstances beyond my control)

1994 Desperately Seeking Sarasvati: Recent Trends in South Asian Ethnomusicology. South Asia Seminar, Center for Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin.

1993 Improvisation and Composition in North Indian Instrumental Music. Lecture/demonstration for the Department of Music, University of North Texas, Denton.

1990 Kaku-bhed, Raga-rasa, Interpretive Moves, and Musical Intention: Parameters of Musical Meaning in North Indian Music. Society for Ethnomusicology, National Meeting, Oakland, California.

1990 The Study of Performance Practice as a Research Method: A South Asian Example. The 11th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

1989 The Ethnomusicological Point of View in Teaching Music Appreciation Department of Music, University of California at San Diego

1987 On Musical Offerings To Krishna A MillerComm Lecture delivered at the Krannert Art Museum of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1987 Innovation, Competition and Allegiance in the Evolution of the Maihar Gharana Society for Ethnomusicology, National Meeting, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1986 Popular Kirtan: Some "Great" Aspects of a Little Tradition Society for Ethnomusicology, National Meeting, Rochester, New York.

1986 Concepts Regarding Therapeutic Aspects of Music in Hinduism Symposium on Music Therapy and the Psychology of Music The Department of Music, The University of Texas at Austin

1986 Observations on Devotional Singing in Popular Hindu Culture Symposium on Recent Researches on the Musical Cultures of India School of Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1986 Teaching Appreciation of World Cultures Through Music Symposium on Internationalizing the Humanities Curriculum Southwest Consortium for International Studies and the Humanities

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1984 "You Must Learn How to Learn": Lessons from a Guru Society for Ethnomusicology, National Meeting, Los Angeles, California.

1984 Acoustical Properties and Musical Style in North Indian Instrumental Music American Musical Instrument Society, National Meeting, Tempe, Arizona.

1982 Traditional Music in Banaras Society for Ethnomusicology, Midwest Chapter Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.

1980 Improvisation in Gat Vistar Society for Ethnomusicology, Midwest Chapter Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.

1977 The Samba: its Technique and Functions in Okinawan Minyo The International Folk Music Council, National Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Performances [abridged listing]

2016 Sitar Recital, SPICMACAY, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Tabla accompaniment by Mr. Gourisankar Karmakar.

2015 Sitar soloist. Ravi Shankar, Concerto No. 1 for Sitar and Orchestra. With the UT Symphony Orchestra, Butler School of Music.

2014 Sitar/Sarod Jugalbandi (duet), Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin. With Guest Artists Partho Sarothy (sarod) and Gourisankar Karmakar (tabla).

2014 Sitar Recital, Svaranjali Music Circle and the Konkani Association of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. Tabla accompaniment by Najmuddin Javed.

2014 Sitar soloist. Ravi Shankar, Concerto No. 1 for Sitar and Orchestra. With the Oakland East Bay Symphony Oakland, California.

2013 Sitar Recital, Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin. With Sandeep Das, tabla

2011 Sitar/Sarod Jugalbandi (duet), Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin. With Guest Artists Ken Zuckerman (sarod) and (tabla). SLAWEK- curriculum vitae 13

2009 Sitar Recital, Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin. With Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari, tabla

2009 Sitar Recital, Texas State University. With Sukhvinder Singh Namdhari, tabla

2009 Sitar Recital, Baylor University Lyceum Series. With Gourisankar Karmakar, tabla.

2007 Sitar Recital. The University of Texas at Austin. With Anindo Chatterjee, tabla.

2007 Sitar Recital, School of Music, University of Texas at Austin. With Subrata Bhattacharya, tabla.

2007 Sitar Recital, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. With Vinod Lele, tabla. (invited as a distinguished alumnus)

2006 Sitar Recital, Louisiana Technology University, Ruston, Louisiana. With Pranesh Khan, tabla

2005 Poocha Das (tabla). Accompanied Francoise Rabbath. The University of Texas at Austin.

2004 Sitar Recital. The University of Texas at Austin. With Anindo Chatterjee, tabla.

2004 Sitar Recital. Texas A & M University. With Anindo Chatterjee, tabla.

2004 Sitar Recital. India Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. With Anindo Chatterjee, tabla.

2003 Soloist (sitar). Concerto No. 1 for Sitar and Orchestra by Ravi Shankar. With Emory Orchestra, Atlanta, Georgia.

2003 A Recital of North Indian Classical Instrumental Music. The University of Texas at Austin. With Anindo Chatterjee, tabla.

2001 A Recital of North Indian Classical Instrumental Music. The University of Texas at Austin. With Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla.

1999 Sitar Recital. India Studies Program. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. With Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla

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1999 Sitar Recital. Indian Classical Music Circle of Terre Haute. Terre Haute, IN. Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla.

1998 Sitar Recital. Round Top Festival-Institute, Round Top, Texas. With Samir Chatterjee, tabla.

1998 North Indian Classical Music Ensemble recital under my direction. School of Music, UT-Austin. With Samir Chatterjee (tabla) as guest artist.

1996 Sitar Recital. National Centre for the Performing Arts. Bombay, India. With , tabla.

1995 Sitar Recital. Music Program, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A & M University. With Ishwar Lal Misra, tabla.

1995 Sitar Recital. Jessen Series, School of Music, University of Texas at Austin. With Ishwar Lal Misra, tabla.

1995 Sitar Recital/lecture demonstration at the invitation of the Department of Music, Baylor University, Waco, Texas. With Ishwar Lal Misra, tabla.

1993 Sitar Recital at the invitation of the Indo-American Society, Houston, Texas.

1993 Sitar Recital at the invitation of the Department of Music, University of North Texas, Denton. With Sukhvinder Singh Namadhari, tabla.

1993 Sitar Recital, Bates Recital Hall, Department of Music, The University of Texas at Austin. With Sukhvinder Singh Namadhari, tabla.

1992 Sitar Recital, with Pandit Ravi Shankar, Darbar Hall of the Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi. With , tabla.

1991 Sitar Recital, with Pandit Ravi Shankar, Bass Concert Hall, Arts Complex, University of Texas at Austin. With Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla.

1991 Sitar Recital at the invitation of the Institute for Culture and Communications, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii and the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa. With Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla.

1990 Sitar Recital, for the combined meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Musicological Society, and the Society for Music Theory, Oakland, California. With Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla.

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1990 Sitar Recital, 11th International Conference for Modern South Asian Studies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. With Shyam Lal Mishra, tabla.

1990 Sitar Recital, Department of Music, Texas Tech University. With Pranesh Khan, tabla.

1990 Sitar Recital, Department of Music, Southwestern University. With Pranesh Khan, tabla.

1990 Sitar Recital, Hindu Temple of San Antonio. With Pranesh Khan, tabla.

1989 On stage with Pandit Ravi Shankar. New York, New York; Baltimore, Maryland; Costa Mesa and Oakland, California [tanpura accompaniment].

1988 Front Row Center, a simulcast of KLRU and KMFA, Austin. With Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla.

1988 On stage with Pandit Ravi Shankar. Houston, Austin and Dallas, Texas; Los Angeles and Ojai, California [tanpura accompaniment].

1988 The Transmission of an Oral Tradition. A lecture/demonstration with Pandit Ravi Shankar [sitar], Shubhendra Shankar [sitar], myself [sitar] and Kumar Bose [tabla]. The University of Texas at Austin.

1988 A Recital of North Indian Classical Instrumental Music. The University of Texas at Austin. With Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla.

1987 Ragas and Talas. The University of Texas at Austin. With Swapan Chaudhuri , tabla.

1986 Sitar Recital, Indian Music Circle, Houston, Texas.

1985 An Evening of Indian Music and Dance, The University of Texas at Austin. With Shyam Kane, tabla.

1983 A lecture/demonstration with Pandit Ravi Shankar. The University of Texas at Austin.

1982 An Evening of World Music, Society for Ethnomusicology, Midwest Chapter, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb.

1981 Sitar Recital, Bangalore Music Circle, Bangalore.

1977 Festival of India, East-West Center, Honolulu. With Zakir Hussain on tabla. SLAWEK- curriculum vitae 16

1976 Nada Vandana Music Circle, Varanasi. Sankat Mochan Annual Music Festival, Varanasi. Vishnu Digambar Jayanti, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

1975 Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

1974 Vishnu Digambar Jayanti, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

1973 Sitar Recital, Simla School of Fine Arts, Simla. Sitar Recital, Meerut University, Meerut.

1972 Vishnu Digambar Jayanti, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. All India Radio, Calcutta; United States Information Service, Calcutta.

Memberships

International Council for Traditional Music Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society Society for Asian Music Society for Ethnomusicology Association for Asian Studies Sierra Club

Students Dissertations/Reports completed under my supervision

Azcona, Stevan, Movements in Chicano music: performing culture, performing politics, 1965-1979. 2008 (Ph.D.)

Brace, Timothy. Modernization and Music in Contemporary China: Crisis, Identity, and the Politics of Style. 1992. (Ph.D.)

Brar, Soniya. Influences of Indian Music in the Music of John Coltrane. 2000. (M.M.)

Charles, David. Fusion for survival: expanding international audiences for Indian classical music. 2003 (M.M.)

Cheung, Hoi Yan. Music and the Body in The White-Haired Girl: The Political Ritual of Fanshen in Red China. 1999. (M.M.)

Chongson, Arlene. Pasyon and Holy Week: a Study of Music, Acculturation, and Folk Catholicism in the Philippines. 2000. (Ph.D.)

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Debnath, Purba. Shifting Representations of Indian Classical Music. 2008 (M.M.)

Douglas, Gavin. Popular Music in Canada : Globalism and the Struggle for National Identity. 1993. (M.M.)

Freedman, Jamie. Gospel Singing in Austin, Texas, 2006 (M.M.).

Gaind, Sonia. Reconstructing the Romani Trail Through Song: Indo-Flamenco Fusion and Romani Diasporic Consciousness, 2008 (M.M.).

Graves, Eben. Padavali-Kirtan: Music, Religious Aesthetics, and Nationalism in ’s Cultural Economy, 2014 (Ph.D.)

Grimes, Jeffrey. Jugalbandi: An Examination of an Ensemble Medium in a Solo Tradition 2002. (M.M.);

Grimes, Jeffrey. The Geography of Hindustani Music: The Influence of Region and Regionalism on the North Indian Classical Tradition, 2008 (Ph.D.)

Henderson, David. Collected Voices: Echoes of Harmony and Discontent in the Music of the Kathmandu Valley. 1998. (Ph.D.)

Hicken, Andrew. The complexities of new order cultural policy and local performance in Indonesia: a review of literature. 2004 (M.M.)

Hsu, Chia Hao. Singing Beyond Boundaries: Indigeneity, Hybridity, and Voices of Aborigines in Contemporary Taiwan. 2014. (M.M.)

Hsu, Chia Hao. Reviving Musical Indigeneity: Institutionalization, Transmission, and Revival of Taiwan’s Aboriginal Music. 2019. (Ph.D.)

Johnston, Sharilee. Poetics of Performance: Narratives, Faith, and Disjuncture in Qawwali. 2000. (Ph.D.)

Joo, JaYoung. “We Are Singing Alone”: Norae Bang (Korean Karaoke) and Contemporary Korean Young People. December 2016 (M.M.)

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