"Oral Tradition, Media, and Modernity: Experiencing Music in India": A presentation by Regula Qureshi March 9, 2009

Regula Qureshi is a professor emeritus of the department of Musicology at the University of Alberta, Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, and director of the Folkways Alive! project. An accomplished cellist and sarangi player, Regula Qureshi is interested in the poetics and politics of music and has published widely on South Asian and Islamic performance practices, most recently Sufi Music in India and Pakistan: Sound, Context and Meaning in Qawwaliand.

Room 280, Ferguson Hall.

Official Website: http://www.ias.umn.edu/collabs08-09/MusicSound.php