Shalini Ayyagari
Assistant Professor
Department of Performing Arts
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Degrees
PhD, Ethnomusicology, UC Berkeley
MA, Ethnomusicology, UC Berkeley
BA, Music, Swarthmore College
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OFFICE
- CAS - Performing Arts
- Katzen Arts Center - 234
FOR THE MEDIA
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Teaching
Spring 2012
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- GNED-110 General Education Area 1 Topic: World Music
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- PERF-435 Topics in Music: Musical Wlds of Washington DC
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Fall 2012
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- GNED-110 General Education Area 1 Topic: World Music
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- HNRS-300 Honors Collqm in Arts & Hum: Music & Intellectual Property
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AU Expert
Area of Expertise: Music of South Asia (India and Pakistan), Bollywood film music, South Asian American diasporic music
Additional Information: Shalini Ayyagari worked closely with a group of Manganiyar — a Muslim caste literally translated as beggar — that live in the borderland between India and Pakistan who traditionally play classical and folk music for Hindu life-cycle observances and holiday celebrations. Ayyagari documents the cultural shift in the Manganiyar’s lives and music as these largely illiterate villagers transition to a life of means influenced by cultural interactions with foreign tourists and their own travel as performers. For her Fulbright IIE–funded dissertation research on the Manganiyar community, she filmed over 200 hundred hours of footage and is currently developing a full-length documentary.
Media Relations
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MEDIA RELATIONS
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AU News and Achievements
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District Notes: City Sounds from Metro Music to Go-Go
AU ethnomusicology students learn about D.C. through field work with local musicians....
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