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Lowell Lybarger is a music/multimedia librarian at Arkansas Tech University.  Lowell holds an MA in ethnomusicology from the University of Washington, an MLIS from Kent State University, and a PhD in musicology from the University of Toronto.  His PhD dissertation is an ethnography of the tabla players of Pakistani Panjab for which research was supported by the Fulbright Program and Pakistan National Council of Arts.  Lowell taught courses in musicology, library instruction, information literacy, and music technology in Lahore, Pakistan as a UNESCO consultant (2004) and  HEC visiting professor (2007) for the National College of Arts and Sanjan Nagar Institute of Philosophy and Arts.  After completing his MLIS degree in December 2006, Lowell became the technical consultant and archivist for a preservation project at Radio-Television Afghanistan, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Lowell is an active tabla player, having performed in numerous private and public concerts and festivals in Seattle, Toronto, Columbus, Lahore, and Islamabad. Lowell has studied the tabla from the late Ustad Shaukat Hussain of Lahore and from Ustad Akram Khan of Delhi.

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