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Garrett Field

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School

Interdisciplinary Arts

Garrett Field

Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology/Musicology

Garrett Field specializes in the history of Sinhala-language song and poetry in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. Regarding this subject he is the author of Modernizing Composition: Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka (University of California Press, 2017). It was published in the series, "South Asia Across the Disciplines." Field has published research articles in Ethnomusicology Translations, Modern Asian Studies, Anthropological LinguisticsAnalytical Approaches to World MusicThe Journal of Asian StudiesSouth Asia: Journal of South Asian StudiesThe South Asianist, Sagar: A South Asia Research JournalThe Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, and Ethnomusicology Review.

Dr. Field has received support for his research from the Fulbright-Hays Award, Ohio University’s Baker Fund Award, and two Sinhala Language Instruction Grants from the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies. Field's current research centers attention on Dhivehi-language song and poetry of the Maldives. This book project is entitled "Cultivating Erudition: Dhivehi Aesthetic Forms in the Maldive Islands."

In addition to this research, Field also performs South Indian classical music and leads the Ohio University Indian Music Ensemble. His teachers were B. Balasubrahmaniyan, David Nelson, and Kalpana Venkat. Here is the Indian Music Ensemble's Facebook page.

Book

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Encyclopedic Entries

  • 2020. "Singing and Song." The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. Wiley. | PDF

Educational Background

Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Michigan
Master of Music, Wesleyan University
Doctor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University