PERMANENT SEMINAR OF THE RESEARCH GROUP ON ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND STUDIES IN POPULAR MUSIC
28.01.2026 | 2:30 pm | NOVA FCSH, Av. de Berna, Tower B (Lisbon) | Auditorium B1 | Online
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Meeting ID: 366 102 049 094 37
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Research, Administration, and Teaching in Ethnomusicology
Bonnie Wade | University of California, Berkeley
In this conversation with Bonnie Wade, scholars of INET-md will lead an informal discussion about the span of her work with opportunities for audience participation. It will focus on her perspectives on the following subjects: the history and formation of the discipline as she participated in its consolidation in the United States and has served in important roles in several scholarly societies; her research on Asian musics, which has focused on diverse case studies, especially the Hindustani North Indian classical music tradition and modernist composition in Japan; her work as an editor, including the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and the Global Music Series with over twenty volumes on diverse musical traditions; and her experience as a teacher of diverse musical traditions from undergraduate to doctoral levels.
Bonnie C. Wade | Distinguished Professor Emerita of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. A graduate of UCLA’s Institute of Ethnomusicology, she was Assistant Professor at Brown University and after 1975 on the faculty at UC Berkeley, where she founded the ethnomusicology program, one of the oldest in the country. She has been President of the Society for Ethnomusicology (1999-2001), Vice-President of the American Musicological Society (1991-1993), on the Directorium of the International Musicological Society (1987-1997), and has served as Chair of the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (India) (1991-1996). Professor Wade is a specialist in Asian music with emphases on South Asia (particularly North India) and East Asia (particularly Japan) and focuses on genres, historical perspectives, iconography, improvisatory work, contemporary Japanese music, and ethnography. She is the author of dozens of articles and seven books, including the major monographs Khyal: Creativity Within North India’s Classical Musical Tradition (Cambridge UP 1984), Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India (Chicago 1998), and Composing Japanese Musical Modernity (Chicago 2014). Her pedagogical series of textbooks on music around the world, Global Music Series published by OUP, includes Thinking Musically (2004) and Music of Japan (2004). Wade considers her greatest role is as a teacher.