BUY TICKETS – 1.50 pm – 2.40 pm, Sunday, Sep 8
Oral Transmission in Hindustani classical music – A talk by Utah-based scholar and researcher, Dr. Francesca Lawson.
Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson received an undergraduate degree in harp performance from Brigham Young University, a master’s degree in ethnomusicology from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Washington in Seattle. She conducted research on the inter-relationships of language and music in the narrative arts of Tianjin, China as a Fulbright-Hays and National Academy of Sciences Research Fellow. She was also a President’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of California at Berkeley, and taught courses in the Asian humanities and in gender-music relationships at Columbia University in New York City and Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Her ongoing research interests include the interplay between music and language, the cultural
and biological implications of the gendered voice, and the divergence between cultural and neurological perspectives on music and consciousness. Her ongoing research interests include the interplay between music and language, the cultural and biological implications of the gendered voice, and the divergence between cultural and neurological perspectives on music and consciousness. Her first book, The Narrative Arts of Tianjin: Between Music and Language, was published by Ashgate in 2011 as part of the SOAS Musicology Series; and her second book, The Women of Quyi: Liminal Voices and Androgynous Bodies, was published as part of Routledge’s Ethnomusicology series in 2017. As the 2015 winner of the Jaap Kunst prize for the most significant article published in the field of ethnomusicology, she continues to pursue research that addresses the boundaries between music and science. She was most recently the Marshall Professor and a Fellow at the Humanities Center at Brigham Young University before retiring in July of 2023.