The international colloquium, entitled Counter Culture and Indian Art, took place on May 28 and 29 at the Musee du Quai Branly. Her paper title was Pioneering World Music: Travels and Tales from Participants of the Sixties Indian Music Counter Culture Scene.
To date there has been little attempt to research the historical significance of the rise of a South Asian centered ethnomusicology and the subsequent establishment of world music institutions and centers which have produced professional musicians whose careers depend upon an expertise in either Hindustani (North Indian) or Carnatic (South Indian) classical music traditions. In this paper, Nuttall presented early findings of her recent research in Europe (Netherlands, U.K. and France) which is focused on documenting the lives of the scholars and musicians who have been instrumental in creating and sustaining world music performance and scholarship on Indian classical music in Europe. She focused on the lives of musicians and scholars who have traveled from Europe to India and back again and who have been influential participants of a larger global phenomenon often characterized as part of ‘counterculture’. Nuttall is creating an ‘historical ethnography’ of learned scholars and musicians who have carved out their careers in the highly complex and musically sophisticated classical music systems of India. The work and dedication of these pioneers of the counterculture made it possible for a new generation of scholars and musicians to pursue their careers in Indian classical music in the West.
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