Indian Music at UCLA

01/04/2023

The work of ethnomusicologist Anna Morcom, director of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia, focuses on modern Indian and Tibetan performing arts.
UCLA Center for India and South Asia-CISA UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance UCLA Department of Anthropology UCLA International Institute

“So much of the incredible beauty of Indian culture has been created by communities of subaltern people,” says UCLA Center for India and South Asia-CISA Anna Morcom, who notes that traditional craft artisans, like professional musicians, were mostly low-class, low-status service providers.

Read about her research and plans for CISA: bit.ly/3QhAuF2



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06/08/2022

Young Pandit Shivkumar Sharma R.I.P. with Young Ustad Zakir Hussain in Pune, 1972

An Archival photo of Legendary Hindustani Classical Musicians;
Young Ustad Zakir Hussain with Young Pandit Shivkumar Sharma in Pune, 1972. 🙏🙏

05/10/2022

R.I.P. Shiv Kumar Sharma!

“Before I started playing santoor, I was trained as a vocalist and a tabla player and I feel that has helped me a lot...I trie...

01/14/2022

Introducing the sitar in a colonial documentary released in 1944, Musical Instruments of India, featuring Vilayat Khan when he was a very young musician

1944, from 'Musical Instruments of India' a documentary directed by Modhu Bose.

04/04/2021

Today is the birth anniversary of one of the greatest of all time, Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. Ustad Vilayat Khan once remarked that Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was the "Tansen of our era". His music continues to be a major source of inspiration for me.

01/28/2021

Join us this Sunday at 10am (Pacifit rime) for a panel on Indo-Persian musical hybrids in Afghanistan, our third event in the Indo-Persian Musical Confluence series, featuring eminent ethnomusicologists followed by a performance by Homayoun Sakhi on the rubab.
Panelists:
John Baily (Goldsmith University of London)
Lorraine Sakata (UCLA)
Mark Slobin (Wesleyan University)
Chair and Discussant:
Richard Wolf (Harvard University)

Join us for the third event in the Indo-Persian Musical Confluence series, featuring a panel of eminent ethnomusicologists on Indo-Persian musical hybrids in Afghanistan.

12/11/2020

In remembrance of the anniversary of the death of Pandit Ravi Shankar (7 April 1920 - 11 December 2012), the Ethnomusicology Archive is pleased to announce that recordings from his 1965 tenure as an artist-in-residence in UCLA Ethnomusicology are now accessible online. The 1965 recordings include lectures and performances, including musical collaborations with Tsun-Yuen Lui and Alla Rakha. The link will also take you to a PBS-aired Shankar concert from 1976 (includes commentary by George Harrison) and Professor Robert Garfias discussing "Socializing with Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan" in Garfias' oral history.
https://archive.org/details/uclaethnomusicologyarchive?and%5B%5D=ravi+shankar&sin=

The image is from the James Arkatov collection in UCLA Library Special Collections. http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz001nj2z6

Anna Morcom Indian Music at UCLA

12/11/2020

Ravi Shankar visited UCLA in 1965, and a number of lectures, interviews, and performances have now been put in our archives, please share and enjoy!

Established in 1961, the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive is a world-renowned research archive dedicated to the study of musical traditions from around the globe. The Archive’s collection of more than 150,000 audio, video, print, and photographic items documents musical expressions throughout the...