Garrett Field
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology/Musicology
Garrett Field鈥檚 scholarship explores the history of song and poetry in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, with particular attention to Sinhala- and Dhivehi-language texts. Dr. Field has also published on how musicians improvise in South Indian classical music. He has received support for his research from the Fulbright-Hays Award, Ohio University鈥檚 Baker Fund Award, and two Sinhala Language Instruction Grants from the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies.
Field is the author of (University of California Press, 2017). It was published in the series, "." He has published research articles in the following peer-reviewed journals: Analytical Approaches to World Music; Anthropological Linguistics; Ethnomusicology Review; Ethnomusicology Translations; The Journal of Asian Studies; Modern Asian Studies; Sagar: A South Asia Research Journal; South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies; The South Asianist; and The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities.
In addition to this research, Field also performs South Indian classical music. His teachers were B. Balasubrahmaniyan, David Nelson, and Kalpana Venkat.
Book
- 2017. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Articles and Book Chapters
- Forthcoming. 鈥淎 Provincial Travelogue of the Indian Ocean: Chronicling a Royal Sea Voyage in Dhivehi Poetry from the Maldives, 1804." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.
- Forthcoming. 鈥淒omesticating the Prophetic Biography in the Maldives, 1937鈥1973.鈥 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
- Forthcoming. 鈥淒aydreams at Dawn: Hussain Salahuddeen鈥檚 Dhivehi Novel Numaan and Maryam.鈥 In Serendipitous Translations: A Sourcebook on Sri Lanka in the Islamic Indian Ocean, ed. Nile Green. University of Texas Press.
- 2024. "" by Mahagama Sekera. Translated with an introduction by Garrett Field and Ravinda Mahagamasekera. Ethnomusicology Translations 16: 1-33.
- 2024. 鈥溾 Analytical Approaches to World Music 11(2): 1-33. |
- 2022. 鈥溾 Modern Asian Studies 1-32. |
- 2021. "" Anthropological Linguistics 61(3): 364-388. |
- 2018. "" Analytical Approaches to World Music Journal 6(2): 1-23. |
- 2016. 鈥溾 South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 39(2): 1鈥18. |
- 2015. 鈥溾 The South Asianist 4(1): 1鈥24. |
- 2014. 鈥溾 The Journal of Asian Studies 73(4): 1043鈥58. |
- 2013. 鈥溾樷 Sagar: A South Asia Research Journal XXI: 16鈥27. |
- 2012. "鈥 The Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities 38(1/2): 1鈥24. |
- 2010. 鈥溾 Ethnomusicology Review 15: 1鈥6. |
Encyclopedic Entries
- 2020. "Singing and Song." The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology. Wiley. |
Educational Background
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Michigan
Master of Music, Wesleyan University
Doctor of Philosophy, Wesleyan University