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Joep Bor

1946 –
musicology, botany
sarangi player

Curriculum vitae

1946born in Amsterdam on November 15
1969-1977studied botany (MA in 1976); assistant lecturer at Department of botany, University of Amsterdam; reader (1976-1977) at the Department of plant taxonomy, University of Groningen
1968-1985studied sarangi; among his teachers were Ram Narayan (Bombay) and Dilip Chandra Vedi (New Delhi)
1979, 82-83research scholar at the Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures, University of Utrecht
1987PhD South Asian studies/Indian musicology, University of Utrecht
1986-1990founder and director of the School of Indian Music and Dance, Amsterdam
1987-1990founder and coordinator of the Indian Music Program, Rotterdam Conservatory
1990-1997founder and head of the World Music Department, Rotterdam Conservatory
1997-2001founder and head of the Jazz, Pop & World Music Department, Rotterdam Conservatory
2001-2005director of research, Codarts Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Rotterdam
2002-2006professor of world music at the Codarts Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Rotterdam
2006-presentprofessor of extra-European performing arts studies, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University.

Special activities and positions

  • Curator of the exhibition Die Meister des Raga, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 1992
  • Curator of the exhibition Inde du Nord, Musée de la Musique, Paris, 2002-2003
  • Artistic advisor of the Concertgebouw for the Amsterdam India Festival, 2007-2008
  • Sarangi recitals in Holland, Germany, France, UK, and India, 1966-1992
  • Vice-President of the Indian Musicological Society, Mumbai, 2006-2011
  • Participant in and organizer of several conferences, festivals and exhibitions, among which the International Conference India and the World: The Performing Arts, University of Amsterdam (with Faculty of the Arts, Leiden University): 20-22 November 2008.

Sources

Selected publications

The articles on botany are not included. The CD/LP insert and sleeve notes are found at the bottom of the list
1970  “De klassieke muziek van Noord-India en Pakistan.” Yoga Kroniek 12,2: 70-81. – Reprinted as “Muziek om bij in leven te blijven.” Lemuria 1970: 1-8.
“Geestelijke oefening en discipline zijn voornaamste aspect van Indiase muziek.” De Telegraaf, 12 september 1970: i.
1975  “Raga, species and evolution.” Sangeet Natak 35: 17-48.
1980  Klassieke muziek van India: de sarangi en Ram Narayan, Amsterdam.
1981  “Musiker mit Bogenharfe.” In: Walter Kaufmann (ed.), Musikgeschichte in Bildern: Altindien, vol. 2,8, Leipzig, pp. 164-66.
1982  De Roep van de Kokila: historische en hedendaagse aspecten van de Indiase muziek, ’s-Gravenhage (with Wim van der Meer).
“The Sarangi.” Indian Music Newsletter 3: n.p.
“The Rudra Vina.” Indian Music Newsletter 2: n.p.
“De muziekboog: legende en geschiedenis van een oud Indiaas strijkinstrument.” In: André Klukhuhn (red.), Serendipiteit: de paradox van de ongezochte vondst, Utrecht: Buro Studium Generale van de Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, pp. 33-55.
1984  “My name is Gauhar Jan.” ISTAR Newsletter 2: 4-6.
“Raga sketches.” ISTAR Newsletter 2: 21-23.
“Baijis: female performers of the past.” Indian Music Newsletter 10: n.p.
1985  “Memories of an old sarangi player.” ISTAR Newsletter 3/4: 5-8
“Notating Hindustani music: giving importance to note treatment.” ISTAR Newsletter 3/4: 29-42 (with W.J. Arnold and I. Mott).
“On measuring notes: a response to N.A. Jairazbhoy.” ISTAR Newsletter 3/4: 46-51 (with W.J. Arnold and Wim van der Meer).
“NCPA/ISTAR research collaboration.” National Centre for the Performing Arts Quarterly Journal 14,1: 45-53 (with Bernard Bel).
1987  “The voice of the sarangi: an illustrated history of bowing in India.” National Centre for the Performing Arts Quarterly Journal 15 (3,4) and 16 (1), Bombay, 1986-87, 183 pp. – PhD thesis Utrecht.
“De klank van de Indiase muziek.” Azië 1,3: 70-77.
1988  “The rise of ethnomusicology: sources on Indian music c. 1780 – c. 1890.”
1989  “International Society for Traditional Arts Research (ISTAR), Nederland.” The World of Music 31,1: 117-19 (with Jane Harvey and Huib Schippers).
Review of: Slawek, Stephen M., Sitār technique in nibaddh forms, [s.l.] 1978. Yearbook for Traditional Music 21: 138-39 (with Allyn Miner).
Record review of: “Music for Peace, Indian Classical Music: Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Sarod and Evening Raga, Indian Classical Music: Ustad Allaudin Khan, Dilruba-Esraj.” The World of Music 31,1: 115-16.
1990  “The sarangi.” The India Magazine 10, September: 54-62.
“Respect en verheerlijking.” In: Spiegels van het Oosten, 1990: 18 (met Huib Schippers).
“Flamenco op acceptabel niveau.” In: Spiegels van het Oosten, 1990: 16-17 (met Peter van Amstel).
1991  “Wereldmuziekonderwijs op het Rotterdams Conservatorium: eerst de praktijk, dan de theorie.” In: Peter van Amstel (red.), Wereldmuziek in het onderwijs, Rotterdam, pp. 45-49.
1992  Masters of Raga/Meister des Raga/Les Maitres du Raga, Berlin (with Philippe Bruguière).
“Social status of bowers, musicians and dancers.” In: O.P. Joshi (ed.), Sociology of Oriental music: a reader, Jaipur, pp. 270-94. – Reprint Jaipur 2004.
1994  Inayat Khan: the complete recordings of 1909 (with two CDs), Calcutta and Katwijk: EMI/RPG The Gramophone Co. of India Ltd. and Panta Rhei (with Jane Harvey and Michael Kinnear).
“Keynote address.” In: Seminar on Sarangi, organized by ITC-Sangeet Research Academy, Bombay, pp. 17-22.
Review of: Imago Musicae: international yearbook of musical iconography V, Basel 1988 [1985]. Ethnomusicology 38,1: 162-66 (with Jane Harvey).
1995  Et al. editor of: Rotterdam World Music Festival 1995, Rotterdam: Concert and Congress Centre de Doelen.
“Studying world music: the next phase.” In: M. Lieth-Philipp and A. Gutzwiller (eds), Teaching musics of the world: the second international symposium, Basel, 14-17 October 1993, Affalterbach, pp. 61-81.
“Keynote address.” In: Seminar on tradition & change, ITC-Sangeet Research Academy, Bombay, pp. 58-61.
“Etnomusigologiaa vai maailmanmusiikkia?” Musiikin Suunta 1995,1: 17-26.
1996  “Indien: III. Nordindische (Hindustani-) Musik: 2. Die frühe Neuzeit.” In: Ludwig Finscher (ed.), Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, vol. 4, Kassel and Stuttgart, pp. 681-688 (with Allyn Miner).
“Indien: III. Nordindische (Hindustani-) Musik: 3. Das 20. Jahrhundert.” In: Ludwig Finscher (ed.), Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, vol. 4, Kassel and Stuttgart, pp. 688-696 (with Allyn Miner).
“Indien: VI. Indische Musik und der Westen.” In: Ludwig Finscher (ed.), Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, vol. 4, Kassel and Stuttgart, pp. 733-740.
“Indian Music and the West.” In: Seminar on Indian Music & the West, ITC-Sangeet Research Academy, Mumbai, pp. 1-17.
1998  “Toward a global view on music: Indian music at the Rotterdam Conservatory.” In: Jens Eckert (ed.),Indische Musik in Deutschland: Gegenwart und Zukunft, Aachen, pp. 173-188; also published in Seminar on teaching of Indian music, ITC-Sangeet Research Academy, Mumbai, pp. 107-120.
“Sarangi.” In: Ludwig Finscher (ed.), Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, vol. 8, Kassel and Stuttgart, pp. 1003-9.
“Gurus and Teachers.” In: Seminar on teaching of Indian music, ITC-Sangeet Research Academy, Mumbai, pp. 25-32.
Review of: G. Farrell, Indian music and the West, Oxford 1997. Asian Music 29,2: 129-138.
1999  The Raga guide: a survey of 74 Hindustani Ragas (with four CDs), Wyastone Leys, Monmouth: Nimbus Records with Rotterdam Conservatory of Music (ed. and main author Joep Bor; with Robin Broadbank, Jane Harvey, Wim van der Meer, Lalita du Perron, Suvarnalata Rao and Henri Tournier). – Reprint 2002.
2000  “What is a Raga?/Was ist ein Raga?” In: Musica Sacra International, Marktoberdorf, pp. 76-92.
2002  Keynote address: “Modern research in North Indian music: a brief overview.” In: Workshops on research, archives & musicians’ rights, ITC-Sangeet Research Academy, Mumbai, pp. 8-14.
2003  & Philippe Bruguière (eds), Gloire des princes, louange des dieux: patrimoine musical de l’Hindoustan du XIVe au XXe siècle, Paris.
“Introduction.” In: Joep Bor and Philippe Bruguière (eds), Gloire des princes, louange des dieux: patrimoine musical de l’Hindoustan du XIVe au XXe siècle, Paris, pp. 13-15 (with Philippe Bruguière).
“Des premiers sultanats à l’empire Moghol.” In: Joep Bor and Philippe Bruguière (eds), Gloire des princes, louange des dieux: patrimoine musical de l’Hindoustan du XIVe au XXe siècle, Paris, pp. 16-55.
“Bardes et baladins.” In: Joep Bor and Philippe Bruguière (eds), Gloire des princes, louange des dieux: patrimoine musical de l’Hindoustan du XIVe au XXe siècle, Paris, pp. 110-151.
“Changing Indian instruments.” In: Seminar on research: a focus on musical forms, ITC-Sangeet Research Academy, Mumbai, pp. 27-34.
2004  “The sarangi: its rise and fall.” In: Seminar on continuity and change: Indian music, ITC-Sangeet Research Academy, Mumbai, 2004: 114-18. – Reprint in The Saurangi Festival, New Delhi, May 2005: n. p.
2005  “Jacob en Mamia: verliefd op een achttiende-eeuwse Indiase danseres.” Volksdans 24,3 September: 12-14.
2006  “Foreword.” In: Jan L. Hartong, Musical terms worldwide: a companion for the musical explorer, Rome-Den Haag, pp. xiij-xiv (Codarts Research Series 1).
“Is instrumental Alap the source of improvisation in Hindustani music?” In: Seminar on improvisation in music, ITC-Sangeet Research Academy, Mumbai, pp. 48-60.
“Three important essays on Hindustani music.” Journal of the Indian Musicological Society 36-37: 5-14.
“Wereldmuziek: culturele diversiteit in het muziekonderwijs, Codarts Hogeschool voor de Kunsten.” In: Lectoren bij hogescholen, Den Haag, pp. 574-75.
“Lectoraat Wereldmuziek.” In: Opleiden in de multiculturele samenleving: een bijdrage aan de dialoog in het hoger beroepsonderwijs , Amsterdam, pp. 57-61.
2007  “Mamia, Ammani and other Bayadères: Europe’s portrayal of India’s temple dancers.” In: Martin Clayton and Bennett Zon (eds), Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s–1940s: Portrayal of the East, Aldershot, pp. 39-70. – Reprint in Davesh Soneji (ed.), Bharatanatyam: a reader, New Delhi, pp. 13-49.
“Prologue.” In: “Networks & Islands: World Music & Dance Education.” Musiké 3, January/April: vij-viij.
2008  En toen was er wereldmuziek en werelddans…/and then there was world music and world dance..., Leiden: Faculteit der Kunsten, Universiteit Leiden.
Editor of: Indian music today: masters of Raga and Tala featured at the concertgebouw (with two CDs), Amsterdam: Amsterdam India Festival, Het Concertgebouw and PAN Records.
& Anneke Hogenstijn (red.), Spektakel en verstilling: Amsterdam India Festival in het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (Preludium: concertgebouw-nieuws 67,3), 92 pp.
“Ragas and Talas at Codarts: Rotterdam Music Conservatory.” In: Neelam D. Sabharwal (ed.), Changing images: lasting visions, India and the Netherlands, The Hague: Embassy of India, pp. 153-56.
“Indian music today: 1. Indian Music is alive and kicking, 2. A shared past, 3. What is a Raga?, 5. Hindustani music.” In: Joep Bor (ed.), Indian music today: masters of Raga and Tala featured at the Concertgebouw (with two CDs), Amsterdam, pp. 4-14.
“Is Indiase muziek oud of nieuw? Een springlevende traditie.” In: Joep Bor en Anneke Hogenstijn (red.), Spektakel en verstilling: Amsterdam India Festival in het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (Preludium: concertgebouw-nieuws 67,3), pp. 8-11.
“De ruggegraat van de Indiase muziek: Wat is een raga?” In: Joep Bor en Anneke Hogenstijn (red.), Spektakel en Verstilling: Amsterdam India Festival in het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (Preludium: concertgebouw-nieuws 67,3), pp. 16-18.
“Indiase dans en muziek in Europa: Verfijning voor dovemansoren?” In: Joep Bor en Anneke Hogenstijn (red.), Spektakel en Verstilling: Amsterdam India Festival in het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (Preludium: concertgebouw-nieuws 67,3), pp. 26-27.
“Tempeldanseressen.” In: Joep Bor en Anneke Hogenstijn (red.), Spektakel en verstilling: Amsterdam India Festival in het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (Preludium: concertgebouw-nieuws 67,3), pp 78-79.
“India: de bakermat van het strijkinstrument?” In: Joep Bor en Anneke Hogenstijn (red.), Spektakel en verstilling: Amsterdam India Festival in het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam (Preludium: concertgebouw-nieuws 67,3), pp. 81-83.
Review of: Janaki Bakhle, Two men and music: nationalism in the making of an Indian classical tradition, New York 2005. Journal of the Indian Musicological Society 39: 246-50 (with James Stevenson).
2009  “De muziek en dans van de ‘exotische mens’.” In: Something else: het kunstvakonderwijs in 2015, Rotterdam: Codarts, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, pp. 39-45.
2010  Et al. editor of: Hindustani music: thirteenth to twentieth centuries, New Delhi.
“Introduction.” In: Joep Bor et al. (ed.), Hindustani music: thirteenth to twentieth centuries, New Delhi, pp. 11-32.
“Hindustani music: an historical overview of the modern period.” In: Joep Bor et al. (ed.), Hindustani music: thirteenth to twentieth centuries, ed. Joep Bor et al., New Delhi, 197-220 (with Allyn Miner).
“Early Indian bowed instruments and the origin of the bow.” In: Joep Bor et al. (ed.), Hindustani music: thirteenth to twentieth centuries, New Delhi, pp. 431-458.
“Foreword.” In: H. Tournier, North Indian music: Hariprasad Chaurasia and the art of improvisation, Paris, p. 7.
2011  “Sarangi.” In: Nikhil Ghosh and S. Devidas Pillai (eds), The Oxford encyclopaeda of the music of India, New Delhi, vol. 3, pp. 945-946.
“Zonder praktijk geen theorie: over onderzoek naar niet-westerse muziek.” In: M. Cobussen (red.), Resonanties: verkenningen tussen kunsten en wetenschappen, Leiden: Leiden University Press, pp. 42-52.
2013  “On the dancers or Devadasis: Jacob Haafner’s account of the eighteenth-century Indian temple dancers.” In: F. Kouwenhoven and J. Kippen (eds), Music, dance and the art of seduction, Delft: Eburon, pp. 233-60, 356-65, 415-21.
& Huib Schippers, Hindustani Music: sustainable futures for music cultures: towards an ecology of musical diversity, Brisbane: Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University.

Publications: CD/LP insert and sleeve notes

1970 Ali Brothers: Nazakat Ali Khan and Salamat Ali Khan, EMI SC 063-24197, Heemstede, Holland: His Master’s Voice.
1990 Brij Narayan: Sarod , NI 5263, Wyastone Leys, Monmouth: Nimbus Records Ltd., 12 pp.–Ram Narayan: Sarangi , NI 5265, Wyastone Leys, Monmouth: Nimbus Records Ltd., 1990: 8 pp.
1991 Zia Mohiuddin Dagar: Rudra Vina, NI 5276, Wyastone Leys, Monmouth: Nimbus Records Ltd., 12 pp.
1992 Salamat Ali Khan: Hindustani Classical Vocal, NI 5307, Wyastone Leys, Monmouth: Nimbus Records Ltd., 12 pp. (with Jane Harvey).–Shruti Sadolikar, Hindustani Classical Vocal, NI 5346, Wyastone Leys, Monmouth: Nimbus Records Ltd., 1992: 8 pp. (with Jane Harvey).–Harsh Wardhan: Bansuri , JD 662-2, Zürich: Jecklin Musikhaus, 1992: 16 pp. (with Jane Harvey).
1993 Buddhadev Das Gupta: Sarod, NI 5341, Wyastone Leys, Monmouth: Nimbus Records Ltd., 8 pp. (with Jane Harvey).
1995 Gianni Ricchizzi: Vichitra Vina, NI 5431, Wyastone Leys, Monmouth: Nimbus Records Ltd., 8 pp. (with Jane Harvey).
1999 The Senior Dagar Brothers: Mohiuddin and Aminuddin Dagar, Raga-220, New York: Raga Records, 12 pp. (with Philippe Bruguière).