My ethnomusicological research focuses on Sufi music of South Asia. For my PhD dissertation (2020), I did a year and a half of ethnographic research on Sindhi-language Sufi poetry performance in Kachchh, Gujarat (western India), a border district adjacent to Sindh, Pakistan. The dissertation, entitled “A Heavy Rain Has Fallen Upon My People: Sufi Poetry Performance, Emotion, and Islamic Knowledge in Kachchh, Gujarat” is a study of how poetry performance, especially of poetry by Shāh ‘Abdul Latīf Bhiṭā’ī (1689-1752 CE) has served as a means for the transmission of Islamic/ethical teachings in rural Muslim communities in Kachchh. I examine the role of emotion and affective practices in knowledge transmission, as well as Islamic reformist critiques of musical practice. In total, I've spent about three years in India since 2005, most of that time studying music and languages (Urdu, Hindi, Sindhi, Kachchhi, Punjabi). You can watch more videos I’ve made of Sindhi music in Kachchh, Gujarat on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/brianbondmusic