Inderjit N. Kaur is an ethnomusicologist and a public-facing scholar, with expertise in the music cultures of South Asia, spanning the classical, popular, folk, and devotional. Her research has focused on the deep experiences of worshippers participating in Sikh Sabad Kīrtan, through the analytical lenses and methodological approaches of phenomenology, and sound, sensory, and affect studies. She has been particularly interested in issues of the intertwining of aesthetics and ethics, representation of native epistemologies, and decolonization of the modes of academic research, writing, and teaching. Kaur has published and presented her research widely. Fieldwork and ethnography have been a mainstay of her scholarship, and she has worked closely with the Sikh community in several service and leadership roles. Kaur’s latest project aims to study musical worship as a wellspring of wellness, based on community engaged research with Sikh communities in Southeast Michigan.
Inderjit Kaur
School of Music, Theatre & Dance | Musicology
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