Mark Levy
Instructor of Ethnomusicology, School of Music
Phone: (541) 346-2852
Email: mlevy@uoregon.edu
Mark Levy specializes in ethnomusicology, with his primary focus on the music cultures of southeastern Europe. In addition, he regularly teaches a course on the Music of India. His book, Intonation in North Indian Music: A Select Comparison of Theories with Contemporary Practice was published by Biblia Impex Private Limited in New Delhi in 1982. He has developed an ongoing Javanese and Balinese gamelan program at the UO, and regularly incorporates Indonesian music into several other world music courses. Among his recent publications are a series of articles on the musical traditions of seventeen different European-American communities, for the North America volume of the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Since the early 1990s Professor Levy has directed the UO School of Music's "World Music Series", which features concerts, workshops, and lecture-demonstrations by world-class performers of many Asian, Near Eastern, African, and European music traditions. He is currently the curator for an exhibit of musical instruments from many cultures, at the UO Museum of Natural & Cultural History, which includes a number of South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific cultures.
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