Guy Beckとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Dr. Guy L. Beck is a scholar, author, historian of religions, musicologist, and musician. He is presently a Lecturer in Religious Studies in the School of Continuing Studies at Tulane University, and an Instructor in the Philosophy Department at the University of New Orleans. He has a Ph.D. in Religion, South Asia from Syracuse University, a graduate degree in Musicology (M.A.) from Syracuse University and an M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of South Florida. Dr. Beck has published Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound (University of South Carolina Press, 1993) where he examined Hindu theology relative to sacred sound. He has also published, as editor, Alternative Krishnas: Regional and Vernacular Variations on a Hindu Deity (SUNY Press, 2005), where he looks at the Krishnology of the Vaishnava sect known as the Radhavallabha Sampradaya. His recently edited volume, Sacred Sound: Experiencing Music in World Religions (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006), includes a CD of forty selections of world religious chant and music ("....highly recommended, CHOICE). When Beck was a Visiting Fellow for three months at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies in England during the fall of 2001, he delivered the Michaelmas Lectures on Hinduism and Music and taught a graduate seminar in Ethnomusicology. During this time, he also received a grant from the Infinity Foundation for research and study at Oxford University on the Indic influences on world religious chant and music.