Stephen M. Slawek Curriculum Vitae 10008 Sausalito Drive Butler School of Music Austin, TX 78759-6106 The University of Texas at Austin (512) 794-2981 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. (Sitar) Banaras Hindu University 1974 B. Mus. (Sitar) Banaras Hindu University 1973 Diploma (Tabla) Banaras Hindu University 1971 B.A. (Biology) University of Pennsylvania Employment 1999-present Professor of Ethnomusicology, The University of Texas at Austin 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 Scholarship and Creative Activities Books under contract The Classical Music of India: Going Global with Ravi Shankar. New York and London: Routledge Press. 1997 Musical Instruments of North India: Eighteenth Century Portraits by Baltazard Solvyns. Delhi: Manohar Publishers. Pp. i-vi and 1-153. (with Robert L. Hardgrave) SLAWEK- curriculum vitae 2 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 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, 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. Essays in collections of essays 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. SLAWEK- curriculum vitae 3 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 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. 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 2007 Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Classical Tradition, by Janaki Bakhle. Ethnomusicology 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. SLAWEK- curriculum vitae 4 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 Sarod in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Allyn Miner. In Notes 51/3:933-935. 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 Khyal: 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 Nikhil Banerjee. Afternoon Ragas: Bhimpalasri, Multani. In Ethnomusicology 39/3:520-23. Video Review 2002 The Musical Instruments of Kacch and Its Neighbours. In Asian Music.34/1:170-173 SLAWEK- curriculum vitae 5 2001 Khyal: The Classical Singing of North India. In Ethnomusicology 45/2:377-78. Recordings 1999 Selected examples of Hindustani classical music. Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia. New York: Garland Publishing. (From personal field recordings) 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) Invited Papers/Lectures 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 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 SLAWEK- curriculum vitae 6 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 “Gharana” 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).