Sarah Morelli

Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology

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Sarah Morelli joins the University of Denver 's Lamont School of Music faculty in the fall of 2006, where she will teach courses on world music and lead a North Indian classical performance ensemble.  She is currently completing her doctoral degree in ethnomusicology from Harvard University . A specialist in classical music and dance of North India , Professor Morelli has studied Hindustani vocal music and the sarod with the legendary musician, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, and trained in Kathak dance with virtuosic
Kathak master, Pandit Chitresh Das.  Her dissertation focuses on Pandit Das' contributions to Kathak dance, examining processes of culture-change in artistic diasporas.  These issues also inform her earlier work on hip hop culture in Korea ("Who is a Dancing Hero?" in Global Noise, ed. Tony Mitchell, Wesleyan University Press, 2001).

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