加勒特领域 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, 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 现代亚洲研究, Anthropological Linguistics, Analytical Approaches to World 音乐, The Journal of Asian Studies, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 南亚主义者, Sagar: A South Asia Research Journal, The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, 人种音乐学审查.

Dr. Field has received support for his research from the Fulbright-Hays Award, newbb电子平台’s Baker Fund Award, 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 newbb电子平台 Indian 音乐 Ensemble. 他的老师是B. Balasubrahmaniyan, David Nelson, Kalpana Venkat. Here is the Indian 音乐 Ensemble's Facebook page.

书

• 2017. Modernizing Composition: Sinhala Song, Poetry, Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

同行评议的文章

• 2024. “音乐al Improvisation and Elegant Writing: Ālāpana in South Indian Karnatak 音乐 Performed by U. 斯.” Analytical Approaches to World 音乐 11(2): 1-33. | PDF
• 2022. “Poetry for Linguistic Description: The Maldives Inside and Outside the Arabic Cosmopolis in 1890.” 现代亚洲研究 1-32. | PDF
• 2021. "Scrambling Syllables in Sung Poetry of the Maldives." Anthropological Linguistics 61(3): 364-388. | PDF
• 2018. "Improvising Rhythmic-Melodic Designs in South Indian Karnatak 音乐: U. 在1995年." Analytical Approaches to World 音乐 Journal 6(2): 1-23. | PDF
• 2016. “Modern Contours: Sinhala Poetry in Sri Lanka, 1913–1956.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 39(2): 1–18. | PDF
• 2015. “Veiling the Modular: Literary Language and Subjective Nationalism in Sinhala Radio Song of Sri Lanka, 1957–1964.” 南亚主义者 4(1): 1–24. | PDF
• 2014. “音乐 for Inner Domains: Sinhala Song and the Arya and Hela 学校s of Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Sri Lanka.” The Journal of Asian Studies 73(4): 1043–58. | PDF
• 2013. “‘Handa Eliya’ (The Moonlight): Mahagama Sekera’s Experimental Prose.” Sagar: A South Asia Research Journal 第二十一章:16-27. | PDF
• 2012. "Commonalities of Creative Resistance: Regional Nationalism in Rapiyel Tennakoon’s Bat Language and Sunil Santha’s Song for the Mother Tongue.” The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities 38(1/2): 1–24. | PDF
• 2010. “From Threatened by Modernity to Reinvented by Modernity: The History of the History of Indian Classical 音乐 1980–2006.” 人种音乐学审查 15: 1–6. | PDF

百科全书式的作品

• 2020. 唱歌和唱歌." The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. 威利. | PDF

教育背景

Bachelor of 美术, University of Michigan
Master of 音乐, Wesleyan University
Doctor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University