All Day
Society for Ethnomusicology Pre-Conference Symposium Honoring Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy
Wilshire Grand Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles

"Music Research and Performance in South Asia: The Life and Work of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy"

This pre-conference symposium honors Department of Ethnomusicology founding chair Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, who passed away June 20, 2009. Educated in India and England, Jairazbhoy was an ethnomusicologist with an international reputation as a researcher, teacher, administrator, and a scholar. His comprehensive knowledge of India’s folk, classical, and popular music traditions was unrivalled among those in the field of ethnomusicology. For more symposium information, visit www.indiana.edu/~semhome/2010/special.shtml