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Sarah Morelli

Sarah   Morelli, Ph.D.

  • Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Room 301
  • 303-871-6962
  • sarah.morelli@du.edu

Interests:

For information on the Lamont World Music Concert and Lecture Series, part of the Expanding Horizons Initiative, please click here

North Indian classical music and dance, artistic diasporas, gender studies, Senegalese musics, global pop.

Publications:

Tales of a Modern Guru: Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian Classical Dance in Diaspora. Champaign IL: University of Illinois Press (under contract)

“Intergenerational Adaptation in North Indian Kathak Dance.” Anthropological Notebooks. 16/3 (2010): 77-91.

"Pusan." In Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Vol. V: Asia and Oceania. ed. Shepherd et al. London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005, 49.

"World Library of Folk and Primitive Music Vol. 7: India" (Recording Review). Recorded by Alain Danielou, from the Alan Lomax collection. Rounder Records CDROUN1755, 2002. in Ethnomusicology 48 (Fall 2004): 475-478.

"Who is a Dancing Hero? Rap, Hip-Hop and Dance in Korean Popular Culture." In Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop Outside the USA. ed. Tony Mitchell. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 2001, 248-258.

Recent courses:

Seminars--Music and Belief in World Cultures, Studying Music in the Field: Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology, Topics in Hindustani Music, Musics of the African Diaspora, Gender and Genre in World Musics; undergraduate courses--Soundscapes: Exploring Music in Multicultural America, Introduction to World Musics, Dance in India.