Matthew Harp Allen (Wheaton College)

updated: Sat, 29 May 1999 13:42:11 -0500

Matthew Allen
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Music
Wheaton College
Norton, MA 02766

email: matthew_allen@wheatonma.edu

Description of work:
  Courses with South Asia focus taught:
    Art Music Traditions of Asia
    Music and Dance of South India
    Introduction to World Music
    Introduction to Ethnomusicology

Keywords:
Ethnomusicology
South Asia
Tamil Nadu
Karnataka Music
Bharata Natyam dance
social history of Indian dance and music
cultural studies
music, colonialism and nationalism
gendering of artistic performance
the padam genre of dance music
guitar, vina, sitar and the plucked lute family of instruments