Name Lisa Urkevich | Role Professor | |
Books Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar | ||
Esam Jenaid(Researcher & Hist.Music.)with Dr.Lisa Urkevich. Majror(Ya seed)
Lisa Urkevich is Professor and Chair of the Department of Music and Drama at the American University of Kuwait. As a musicologist and ethnomusicologist she specializes in the music and rituals of the Arabian Peninsula. She also has a particular interest in Northern European Renaissance music.
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Dr. Urkevich obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1997 and went on to teach at Boston University where she held a joint faculty position in the College of Fine Arts, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She was a US Senior Fulbright Scholar in Kuwait from 2003 after which time she officially joined the newly opened American University. She has done extensive fieldwork in the Peninsula, beginning in 1994 when she initially lived in various regions of Saudi Arabia. She has traveled widely throughout the Kingdom and continues to work closely with regional musicians in Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf, and the greater Arab World.
She is the founder and former director of the center "The Arabian Heritage Project" and the Kuwait Al-Kout Festival, which celebrated regional intangible heritage. She has developed courses on Peninsula music and regularly teaches and lectures on arts and rituals of Saudi Arabia and the Arab States of the Persian Gulf.
In 2015 she will be a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.
Select Publications
Music and Traditions of the Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar. New York/London: Routledge, 2015, ISBN 9780415888721
Kuwait: Sea Songs of the Arabian Gulf: Hamid Bin Hussein Sea Band. CD and Booklet issued separately. MCM 3051. Barre, VT: Multicultural Media, 2014, ISBN 978-0-9904737-4-9