Academic Education

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Edited Volumes
 

Hamilton, A., & Pearson, L. (Eds.), (forthcoming). The Aesthetics of Imperfection: Improvisation, Performance and Composition in Music and the Arts. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Journal Articles and Book Sections

Pearson, L. (forthcoming). Notions of Improvisation in Historical and Social Context: Spontaneous Creation in Karnatak Music. In Ruta, Marcello, & A. Bertinetto (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Improvisation in the Arts. Abingdon: Routledge.

Pearson, L. (forthcoming). Inscriptions, Gesture, and the Self: Notation in Karnatak Music. In E. Payne & F. Schuiling (Eds.), Material Cultures of Music Notation: New Perspectives on Musical Inscription. Abingdon: Routledge.

Pearson, L. (forthcoming). A Socially Situated Approach to Aesthetics: Games and Challenges in Karnatak Music. In A. Hamilton & L. Pearson (Eds.), The Aesthetics of Imperfection: Improvisation, Performance and Composition in Music and the Arts. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Jacoby, N, Margulis, E, Clayton, M, Hannon, E, Honing, H, Iversen, J, Klein, TR, Mehr, SA, Pearson, L, Peretz, I, Perlman, M, Polak, R, Ravignani, A, Savage, PE, Steingo, G, Stevens, CJ, Trainor, L, Trehub, S, Veal, M, Wald-Fuhrmann, M, (in press), Cross-Cultural Work in Music Cognition: Challenges, Insights and Recommendations. Music Perception.

Pearson, L. (2018). Cultural Heritage, Sustainability and Innovation in South Indian Art Music. In B. Norton and N. Matsumoto (Eds.), Music as Heritage: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives. Aldershot: Routledge.

Pearson, L. (2016). Coarticulation and Gesture: An Analysis of Melodic Movement in South Indian Raga Performance. Music Analysis, 35(3), 280-313. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12071

Pearson, L. (2013). Gesture and the Sonic Event in Karnatak Music. Empirical Musicology Review, 8(1), 2-14. https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v8i1.3918 

PhD Thesis
 

Pearson, L. (2016). Gesture in Karnatak Music: Pedagogy and Musical Structure in South India. (PhD), University of Durham. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11782/

Conference Papers (selected)
 

Pearson, L. (2019, September 26-28). An aesthetics of movement in Karnatak music: Conceptualising music through the body. Paper presented at the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM19), Graz, Austria.

Pearson, L. (2019, September 3-9). Gestural interaction in South Indian vocal lessons: Forging common ground through the body. Paper presented at the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM) 2019, Durham, UK.

Pearson, L. (2019, July 11-17). Gesture in Karnatak music: Technologies, data, and analysis. Paper presented at the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) world conference, Bangkok, Thailand.

Pearson, L. (2019, May 31-June 2). Oscillations, finger stresses, and slides: Gestural affordances and the Karnatak style. Paper presented at the Tenth International Conference on Music and Sonic Art (MuSA), Karlsruhe, Germany.

Pearson, L. (2018, June 26-29). Gesture, segmentation, and meaning in South Indian raga performance. Paper presented at the Analytical Approaches to World Music (AAWM) conference, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Pearson, L. (2018, April 20-22). Notation, gesture, and identity in South Indian art music. Paper presented at Material Cultures of Music Notation: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Pearson, L. (2018, April 12-15). Cultural activism in South India: Protesting social inequality within and through Karnatak music. Paper presented at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) Annual Conference, Newcastle, UK.

Pearson, L. (2017, July 13-14). Gesture as thought in South Indian raga performance. Paper presented at the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group (RMA MPSG) conference, London.

Pearson, L. (2017, April 3-5). Gesture in Karnatak vocal lessons: Cross-domain mapping and gestural indexing. Paper presented at the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) conference, Hull, UK. 

Pearson, L. (2015, August 17-22). Hand gestures in South Indian vocal lessons: The exploitation of cross-domain mapping as a pedagogic tool. Paper presented at the European Society for the Cognitive Science of Music (ESCOM) conference, Manchester, UK.

Pearson, L. (2014, November 13-16). Gesture in Karnatak music pedagogy: Typologies, ethical constraints, and cross-modal Interaction. Paper presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) annual conference, Pittsburgh, USA.   
        
Pearson, L. (2014, September 9-12). Deviation from standard melodic formulas by an expert performer: An analysis of Karnatak raga alapana. Paper presented at Perspectives on Musical Improvisation II (POMI II), Oxford, UK.        

Pearson, L. (2014, July 1-4). A kinetic approach to music analysis: Coarticulation in South Indian raga performance. Paper presented at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology – Analytical Approaches to World Music conference (BFE-AAWM), London, UK. 
 

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