Adrian’s extensive knowledge of Indian music is supported by an extensive research background in music. He has a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Monash University, Melbourne. He was awarded a prestigious 3 year post-doctoral fellowship by the Australian Research Council hosted by the School of Media, Communication and Culture, Jadavpur University, Calcutta (1996-1998). In 1999-2000 he was a visiting research fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He was a lecturer in the Dept of Contemporary Music Studies at Macquarie University Sydney from 2004-2013 and was also the acting director of the Indian Research Centre at Macquarie University from 2011-12, In 2013 he received a prestigious creative fellowship at the State Library of Victoria.
In 2014 Adrian took up the position of senior lecturer in ethnomusicology at the School of Music, Monash University, Melbourne. Over the years he has taught at the University of Melbourne, the Victorian College of the Arts and Hong Kong University. He has also been a guest lecturer in Jadavpur University (Kolkata), University of Pennsylvania, Hong Kong Performing Arts Academy and elsewhere.
Below are Adrian’s publications on Hindustani music:
Book
Forthcoming:
Hereditary Musicians and Creativity in Hindustani Music, Kolkata: Thema, 2019
Inventing the Sarod: A Cultural History Kolkata, Seagull Books, 2004
Book Chapters
‘The Ustads from the North, the public sphere, and the classicisation of music in late 19th century Kolkata’ in Tejaswini Niranjana (ed.) Modernity, Music and the Public Sphere in India Delhi: OUP, 2019.
‘Making Modernity Audible’ in Das Gupta, Amlan (ed.) Music and Modernity: North Indian Classical Music in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Kolkata: Thema 2007
Journal Articles on Hindustani music
‘Seed Ideas and Creativity in Hindustani Raga Music: An alternative to the composition – improvisation dialectic’, Ethnomusicology Forum, Vol. 26 (1) 2018.
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‘Generational Friction: An ethnographic perspective on guru seva and talim within a lineage of tabla players in Kolkata’ MUSIcultures, Vol. 44 (2) 2017.
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‘Hereditary Musicians, Hindustani music and the Public Sphere in Late Nineteenth Century Calcutta’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 40 (4) 2017.
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‘Ragas, Rasas and Recipes’, Oxford Handbooks on Line Ethnomusicology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
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Tawaif, Military Musicians and Shia ideology in pre-Rebellion Lucknow South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2009 click here to download .pdf
Improvisation as Conversation: A Cross Cultural Perspective, Journal of the Indian Musicological Society (38) 2007. click here to download .pdf
Mirasis: Some thoughts on Hereditary Musicians in Hindustani Music in Context (32) 2007
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Making Modernity Audible: Sarodiyas and their Strategies in the South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Dec 2004 click here to download .pdf
Riaz: Liminality and the Outsider Conference Proceedings, Sangeet Research Academy Mumbai, 2000.
Indian Music in the West: An Australian Perspective on Issues of Definition, Representation and Cultural Ownership Conference Proceedings, Sangeet Research Academy, Bombay, 1996.
Politicising a Musical Tradition: Religious Fundamentalism and Musicians in North India, Context 11 (Winter) 1996.
Why Hindustani Musicians are Good Cooks: Analogies Between Music and Food in North India, Asian Music, Vol. 25, Fall 1993-94. click here to download .pdf
Australia maiñ Hindustani Sangeet aur uska Itihas (Hindi) Devanagari, Vol.1. No.1. 1992 (The History of Indian Music in Australia).