Myranda studied the music of West Africa for several years under Professor and Paramount Chief Gideon Alorwoyie during her time at University of North Texas. Her interest in Ewe drumming and dancing led her to spend a summer abroad studying with local musicians in the...
Myranda began studying South Indian Karnatak classical music in 2007 with the respected mrdangamvidwan Poovalur Srinivasan (“Sriji”) at the University of North Texas. Learning about Karnatak improvisational techniques from Sriji changed her worldview on rhythm and inspired her to pursue the classical music of South...
Recent scholarship has revealed that the representation of Karnatic music as a “classical” art form in South Indian society was a complicated process bound to the agendas of larger early twentieth-century nationalist projects in India. This thesis explores the notions of classicalness as they are...
This paper explores the way improvisation served as a symbol of freedom and resistance and as a mediator for transnational artistic exchanges in the wake of 1960s counterculture and civil rights movements. It looks at the way that narratives on freedom and resistance circulated through...
This paper examines the curious intersection between Indian music and Sanskritic Hindu values, texts, and ritual by looking at the ways in which the Vedic origins of India’s music are reified in modern-day classical music practice....