Aditi Deo is Visiting Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute for Science Education and Research, Pune, India. Between 2011 and 2013, she was affiliated with the ERC Music, Digitisation and Mediation project as Postdoctoral Research Associate for the India study. As part of the ERC project, she conducted a multi-sited study that focused on burgeoning practices of digital archiving of oral vernacular musics emerging from a spectrum of contexts: institutional, commercial and independent. A smaller sub-project examined informal grey economies centered on music and the ubiquitous circulation and consumption of music on portable devices among non-elite consumers.
Aditi is an ethnomusicologist with research interests in musics of the Indian subcontinent. She completed her PhD in 2011 from Indiana University Bloomington, where she held instructorships in Ethnomusicology courses and graduate assistantships at the Archives of Traditional Music (ATM) and the Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC). Her dissertation is based on close ethnographic research with non-hereditary students and performers of the north Indian classical vocal genre of Khyal, to construct an account of the genre that decenters hereditary musicianship. At present, she is engaged in research on oral traditions in western India under a fellowship from the Indian Ministry of Culture-a project that emerges partly from her postdoctoral work.
