I will ask a range of questions including what can music, as a social practice, contribute to interdisciplinary debates on plurality and inclusivity, identity and difference? How might ethnomusicology and practical engagement with world musics help develop models of ‘distinctness without domination’? What insights might be gained from the philosophies and consciousnesses (howsoever defined) underpinning other musics?

I will also examine my own experience of learning Indian music and of implanting it into the curriculum.