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Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy (B.A. Vassar College; M.M. Yale University; Ph.D. Brown University) is visiting professor in UCLA's Department of Ethnomusicology, and affiliated professor at the University of Visual and Performing Arts in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her research, writing, teaching, curating and multimedia publications are often applied to community development of minority traditions and Islamic music, especially in diasporic settings. Her articles have appeared in scholarly journals such as Ethnomusicology, Asian Music, The World of Music and Musike. Former president of the Southern California Applied Anthropology Network of the American Anthropological Association's National Association of Practicing Anthropologists, her applied research includes projects with Cambodian American refugees, Hmong American refugees from Laos, and Sidi descendants of Africans in India. With UCLA historian Edward Alpers, she co-edited Sidis and Scholars: Essays on African Indians. Dr. Catlin-Jairazbhoy produced, in collaboration with her late husband Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, two video documentaries on Sidis: From Africa to India: Sidi Music in the Indian Ocean Diaspora and The Sidi Malunga Project: Rejuvenating the African Musical Bow in India, and the CD, Sidi Sufis: African Indian Mystics of Gujarat. Her latest ethnographic DVD, Music for a Goddess, advocates adaptive traditionalism among Dalit music practitioners of the Deccan region of Maharashtra and Karnataka.