Lowell Lybarger and his students at the musicology department of the National College of Arts, Lahore.
2006
MLIS,
School of Library Information
Science, Kent State University
2003
PhD
University of Toronto,
ethnomusicology
Dissertation: "The Tabla Solo Repertoire of Pakistani Panjab"
Supervisor: Dr James Kippen
Major Area: Indian/Pakistani Classical Music, Music of Islam
Minor Area: Music Technology, Modernity/Modernism, South Asian Studies
1997
MA University of Washington,
ethnomusicology
1990
BA Rutgers University,
anthropology
2007
HEC visiting professor at the National
College of Arts (Lahore, Pakistan)
2006-2007
Graduate & Administrative Assistant, School
of Library Information Science, Kent State
University (Columbus, OH)
Technical and archival consultant for Radio-Television Afghanistan digitization project in Kabul, Afghanistan, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
2005-2006
Graduate Assistant,
School
of Library Information Science, Kent State
University (Columbus, OH)
Library Aide, Old Worthington Public Library (Worthington, OH)
2004
UNESCO
consultant for
research in musicology at Sanjan Nagar Institute
of Philosophy and Arts (Lahore, Pakistan)
Instructor in musicology at the National College of Arts (Lahore, Pakistan)
2003
Director of the
Archival
Restoration Project for the Campana Hindustani Music Collection
(University of Toronto)
Grading Assistant, 'Music of the World's Peoples' (University of Toronto)
2002
Director of the
Archival
Restoration Project for the Campana Hindustani Music
Collection (University of Toronto)
Teacher Assistant, 'Music and Society'(University of Toronto)
2001
Grading Assistant,
'Music of
Islam' (University of Toronto)
2000
Teacher Assistant,
'Music
and Society'; Grading Assistant, 'Music of the 1960s' (University of
Toronto)
1999
Teacher Assistant,
'Music
and Society', 'Music of the World's Peoples' (University of Toronto)
1998
Teacher Assistant
'Music and
Society', 'Performing Arts of South Asia',
and 'Practical Studies in Ethnomusicology' (University of Toronto)
Research Assistant
(University of Toronto)
1993
Archival Assistant,
University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives
1992
Teacher Assistant
'Music of
Europe' (University of Washington)
2007
"Zamzama: The Poetics of Indo-Persian Art
Music." The
Ohio State University.
October 2006. (multimedia paper and
musical performance)
2005
"Recording Consciousness and Hindustani Music: an audiophile
lec-dem
of the tabla."
Mid-Atlantic regional meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Bowling
Green State
University. April 2005. (multimedia paper and
musical performance)
2004
"The (Unconscous) Aesthetics of Timbre in (Electronic) Tabla Music."
Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, San Diego
State University.
April 2004.
(multimedia paper, presentation in absentia)
2003
Guest lectures and tabla solo concert. State
University of California
at Chico.
September 2003.
2003
"Modernity, Islam and the Tabla." University of
Wisconsin,
Madison conference:
Arts and Modernity in Islamic Asia. June 2003.
2002
"World-beat implosion: the International Kaherva Tal tabla solo of
Ustad
Tari Khan."
University of Toronto, April 2002.
"Warming Up, Showing Off and Tooling Around: The Ritual Performance
Space
of
Pakistani Panjabi Tabla Players" Invited Lecture,
University
of Virginia, February 2002.
2001
"On Musicians' Speech About Music." University of Toronto,
November 2001.
2000
"Mapping South Asian Regional Identities through Music: The
'Magnificent Seven' of
India, Pakistan and Afghanistan." Sound Escape: A Conference on
Acoustic
Ecology.
Trent University, June 2000.
"Representations of Car Darje Ki Gat: Product and Process in Solo Tabla
Music."
Graduate Student Symposium. University of Western Ontario,
May 2000.'
1998
"Arifana Kalam: The Sufi Music of Panjab." University of
Toronto,
December 1998.
"The Nazarana Ritual of Tabla Players of Pakistani Panjab." Society
for Ethnomusicology
NW Chapter Conference. University of British
Columbia, February
1998.
"On Musicians' Speech About Music;
Musico-linguistic
Discourse of Tabla Players"
Discourses
in Music 2:2 2000
www.discourses.ca/v2n2a1.html
Table
ki Alphabet: A Translation and Interpretation of a Folklore
Text from the
Delhi Tabla Gharana" Bansuri vol.
11, 1994 Raga-Mala
Performing Arts of Canada.
2004
Persian and
Urdu
1999
Punjabi
1996-1997
Persian and
French
1992-1996
Hindi and Urdu
2007
Pakistan
2004
Pakistan
– UNESCO
1999
India
(Punjab)
– UC Santa Barbara
& Columbia University
Punjab Studies Program.
1994-1996
Pakistan
–
Fulbright Program / Pakistan National Council of the Arts
2007
National College of
Arts
(Lahore, Pakistan)
"Introduction
to Musicology”
"History of Musicology”
"Comparative Survey of Art
Music Traditions"
"World Music
Survey”
2004
National College of
Arts
(Lahore, Pakistan)
"Library
Research Methods”
"The
Semiotics of South Asian Film Music"
"Music
Analysis”
Sanjan
Nagar Institute of Philosophy and Arts
(Lahore Pakistan)
"Lectures in Semiotics"
"Writing Workshop"
2002
School for Continuing Studies (University
of Toronto)
(cancelled
due to lack of
enrollment)
"Music, Culture and Technology"
Lowell Lybarger and his students at the musicology department of the National College of Arts, Lahore.