Speaker: Richard Wolf, Department of Music, Harvard University

Richard K. Wolf, Professor of Music and South Asian Studies at Harvard University, has been conducting ethnomusicological research on the musical traditions of South Asia for more than thirty years. His books and articles consider musical and social issues of language, emotion, poetics, time, space and religious experience. Wolf is also an internationally recognized performer on the vina, a stringed instrument used in South Indian Classical Music. In recent years his field investigations have expanded from South Asia to Central and West Asia, where he is currently conducting field research on issues of music and language among the Wakhi people of adjacent parts of Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and western China.