American vocalist sing Nepali Lokdohori

Anna Stirr is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. She holds a BA in music and religious surveys from Lawrence University in Wisconsin, and a MA, MPhil, and PhD in ethnomusicology from Columbia University. She has similarly trained at Oxford University, Leiden University, and the New School. Her examination focuses on music, move, tongue, closeness, and authoritative issues in South Asia, particularly in Nepal and the Himalayan district. She performs Nepali individuals music as a craftsman, woodwind player, and percussionist.

Before joining the UH staff, Anna held postdoctoral positions in ethnomusicology and humanities at Oxford University, and in Asian Studies at Leiden University. As a teacher, Anna is excited to familiarize understudies with the varying universes of Asian performing expressions, and to more broad themes in Asian social orders and history, from various perspectives in the humanistic systems and humanities.

Anna's investigation focuses on South Asia, particularly on Nepal and the Himalayan area. She is at this moment tackling two exercises that course of action with friendship, closeness, and administrative issues in Nepal. The essential looks dohori address answer tunes as socially comfortable, gendered verbalizations of contemplations of nation, having a place, and legacy, within development and media course that navigates the globe. The second records the authentic scenery of Nepal's politically oppositional "dynamic tune" from the 1960s to the present, with an accentuation on considerations of reverence, progression, and friend thought as interrelated strategies for imagining an unrivaled future. Articles from these exercises have appeared in changed journals and modified volumes. Anna furthermore keeps up element inquire about interests in the relationship between music, religion, authoritative issues and open culture in South Asia and the Himalayas. She is tackling fusing and translating the Nepali individuals music demonstrating materials made by her teachers and moreover the late musicologist Subi Shah.

Close by training and exploring about music, Anna is in like manner dynamic as a performer. Following a four year school instruction in western built up woodwind execution, she has concentrated Hindustani conventional bansuri woodwind with Steve Gorn and Jeevan Ale, and has taken in the general public style of bansuri execution through melodic collaboration with various Nepali performers in the midst of her hands on work. As a craftsman, she has concentrated Hindustani set up singing with Prabhu Raj Dhakal in Kathmandu and Ustad Mehboob Nadeem in London. besides, acknowledged Nepali society and dohori tune as she took in the flute styles, in the easygoing oral tradition. Over the traverse of research on Nepali music Anna made sense of how to perform Nepali individuals and dohori tunes, advertisement libbing rhyming couplets in the Nepali tongue. She also thought the madal drum more formally with Kharka Bahadur Buda Magar. She has had the ideal fortunes to be welcome to perform dohori and Nepali society music around the world. In affirmation of her execution and research, the Ali Miya Lok Wangmaya Pratisthan (Ali Miya Folk Literature Academy) in Pokhara, Nepal, allowed her the 2016 Ali Miya Prize.