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Parents Distinguished Research Professor in the
Humanities
Ph.D., M.F.A., Princeton University
B.A., Amherst College
Phone: (603) 646-1393
FAX: 603 646-2551
Ted.Levin@dartmouth.edu
Theodore Levin is a specialist on music, expressive culture, and traditional
spirituality in Central Asia and Siberia. His two books, "The Hundred Thousand
Fools of God: Musical Travels in Central Asia (and Queens, New York)" and
"Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and
Beyond" are both published by Indiana University Press. As an advocate for
music and musicians from other cultures, he has produced recordings, curated
concerts and festivals, and contributed to international arts initiatives.
During an extended leave from Dartmouth, he served as the first executive
director of the Silk Road Project, founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and currently
serves as Senior Project Consultant to the Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central
Asia, and as a member of the Arts and Culture Network sub-board of the Soros
Foundations' Open Society Institute. He is currently working on a book on
culture and development in Asia, and completing a 10-volume CD-DVD series,
"Music of Central Asia," released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. At
Dartmouth he teaches courses on ethnomusicology and world music, sacred music
in East and West, and, in 2008, will begin teaching a new interdisciplinary
College Course on the Silk Road.
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