Wade, Bonnie
Bonnie Wade is currently Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Berkeley, where her specialty is Asian music with an emphasis on North India and Japan. Wade received her BM at Boston University and both her MA and Ph.D. from UCLA. Her thesis is entitled "A Selective Sudy of Honte-Kaete Tegoto-Mono in Nineteenth Century Japanese Koto Music" (1967). Her dissertation is entitled "Khyal : A Study In Hindustani Classical Vocal Music" (1975). Her published works include Khay: Creativity within North India’s Classical Music Tradition, Music in India: The Classical Tradition, Tegotomono: Music for the Japanese Koto, and Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India. Wade began teaching and developing a series of ethnomusicology classes at UC Berkeley in 1976. Since then she has been chair of the Department of Music (1983-88), Dean of Undergraduate Advising (l992-98), and Chair of the Deans of the College of Letters and Science (1994-98). Her research interests at the present time include contemporary Japanese musical culture. From 2000-2002 she was President of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Archive call number: Collection 69.3
53 sound tape reels: Field recordings made by Bonnie Wade in Punjab, Gujarat, Haryana, Nagaland, Manipur, Bhutan, Maharashtra, and Mysore, India ughal India
Contents: classical music (khyal, thumri, dadra, tarana, tappa and dhun),and folk and dance genres from Punjab, Gujarat, Haryana, Nagaland, Manipur, Bhutan, Maharashtra, and Mysore.