College of Fine Arts
Associate Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology

Brita Heimarck's primary area of interest and research is the shadow play music of Bali, Indonesia, some of which she is currently transcribing from the oral tradition into Western staff notation (forthcoming).  She also specializes in Indian classical music.  Professor Heimarck's most recent publication is Balinese Discourses on Music and Modernization: Village Voices and Urban Views (2003).

For more information, see: http://www.bu.edu/cfa/music/faculty/heimarck/

Courses:

Undergraduate:
Musical Cultures of the World: ethnomusicological Perspectives on Music (CFA MU 325)
World Beat and Ethno-Pop: Popular Musics of the Non-Western World (CFA MU 248)
           
Graduate:
Contemplating Ethnomusicology (CFA MU 829)