Daniel M. Neuman

Professor, Ethnomusicology, Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music, and Director of Graduate Studies
Music of India, especially Hindustani and Rajasthan regional traditions; social organization of musical specialists; anthropology of music; multimedia applications in ethnomusicology; geographical approaches to the study of music traditions.
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Illinois; B.A. Anthropology, University of Illinois
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Daniel Neuman has written and co-edited three books: The Life of Music in North India: The Organization of an Artistic Tradition, published by Wayne State University Press (1980) and republished by the University of Chicago Press (1990) and Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History, published by the University of Illinois Press (1991) and Bards, Ballads and Boundaries: An Ethnographic Atlas of Musical Cultures in West Rajasthan (co-authored with Shubha Chaudhuri), published by Seagull Press (2007). Neuman had earlier also been active in multimedia development, receiving several grants for the development of the World Music Navigator, a computerized ethnographic atlas of the early 1990s. Previously Neuman has taught at Dartmouth College and at the University of Washington, where he served for ten years as Director of the School of Music, before serving as Dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture between 1996 and 2002 and as UCLA's Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost from 2002 to 2006.