back to: Roderic Knight, professor of ethnomusicology		Roderic Knight, professor of ethnomusicology, with the assistance of Liza Sapir, individual major in ethnomusicology, and funded by a McGregor-Oresmon scholarship for the summer of 1999, prepared a collection of forty audio tapes for deposit in the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) in Delhi, India. Knight recorded the tapes while conducting field work in India in 1979 and 1982. Although the music ranges from street processions by wedding bands to polished song recitals of light classical music, the focus of the collection is on music of the Muria, Maria, Pardhan, and Baiga tribal groups who live in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. The music is epic singing with fiddle accompaniment and various drum and dance ensembles. The tapes are accompanied by written documentation and photographs of musicians and dancers.
	Muria dancers from Madhya Pradesh, India during a 1979 field trip to investigate tribal music in India.
	Geri or Ditong Endanna: chelik on stilts and motiari with jagar.
	Dancers with kundir (drums).
	Singer with dholak (drum) at a Hindu temple in Nagpur, India, taken in 1979.