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Nalini Ghuman
Associate Professor, Music

At Mills since 2003

Office: Music 265
Phone: 510.430.2332
Email: nalinig@mills.edu
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Faculty Office Hours
Days	Time	Room
	On sabbatical Spring 2013	MUS 265

Education

PhD, University of California at Berkeley, History and Literature of Music, and Ethnomusicology
MA, The Queen's College, University of Oxford, Music
MMus with Distinction) King's College, University of London, Historical Musicology
BA with First-Class Honours, The Queen's College, University of Oxford, Music

Courses Taught

MUS 001: Eco-Musicology Module
MUS 005: Harmony and Counterpoint
MUS 056: Musical Form and Chromatic Harmony
MUS 101: 20th-Century Styles and Techniques I: 1900–1945
MUS 116/016: Women in Creative Music
MUS 118: Classic and Romantic Music
MUS 131/231: The Mills Performance Collective (Chamber Music)
MUS 137/237: Graduate/Senior Seminar in Music Literature and Criticism

Nationalism and Music
Orientalism and Music
Music and Culture in fin-de-siècle France
Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky

MUS 141: The Music of India
MUS 163: The World of Opera
MUS 180/280: Special Topics in Music: Nationalism
MUS 250: Thesis for Master’s Degree
MUS 160/260: Practicum: individual studies in Musicology or Ethnomusicology

Professional Interests

The history and literature of Western music from 1848-1945, particularly twentieth-century British music; ethnomusicology (particularly North Indian music, Hindi film, and Welsh folk music); cultural studies; post-colonial perspectives on musical nationalism, orientalism, and cross-cultural musical exchange; solo and collaborative piano performance

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P: 510.430.2171
F: 510.430.3228
E: music@mills.edu