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Chloë Alaghband-Zadeh is an ethnomusicologist specializing in contemporary music of South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. Her research explores the intersections of musical sound and ways of listening within structures of power, particularly focusing on gender and class. Her work spans multiple disciplines, synthesizing perspectives from ethnomusicology and music analysis while developing new theoretical insights on affect and emotion. Before coming to Manchester, she held a three-year Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and worked as a Research Associate on the Leverhulme-funded project 'Migrant Memory and Postcolonial Imagination'. Her publications have appeared in notable journals such as Ethnomusicology and Ethnomusicology Forum, as well as Analytical Approaches to World Music. Currently, she is working on a monograph focused on the North Indian semi-classical genre thumri, which combines both ethnographic and analytical research approaches.
University of Manchester • Manchester, England
Teaching and research in ethnomusicology, focusing on contemporary South Asian music and cultural studies.
Includes MSc in Advanced Electrical Power Systems and MSc in Communications and Signal Processing.