In September 2006 I was appointed as a professor at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), Leiden University, and presented my inaugural speech (Dutch: oratie) And then there was world music and world dance… at Leiden University on 25 March 2008.
At ACPA I collaborated with Frans de Ruiter – founder of the academy – and Wim van der Meer, Anne van Oostrum and Marcel Cobussen in supervising (or assessing) the following PhD dissertations:
Mark van Tongeren : Grenzen van het Hoorbare: Over de Meerstemmigheid van het Lichaam (2013)
Bárbara Varassi Pega : Creating and Re-creating Tangos (2014)
Clarence Charles : Calypso Music, Identity and Social Influence: The Trinidadian Experience (2016)
Carlos Miguel Roos Muñoz : Global Music: Recasting and Rethinking the Popular as Global (2017)
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay : Audible Absence: Searching for the Site in Sound Production (2017)
Magda Dourado Pucci : Cantos da Floresta (Forest Songs): Exchanging and Sharing Indigenous Music in Brasil (2019)
Issa I. Boulos : The Palestinian Music-Making Experience in the West Bank, 1920s to 1959 (2020)
Nizar Rohana : ‘Ud Taqsim as a Model of Pre-Composition (2021)
Jan Pieter van Driel : Joodse Muziek en Joods Muzikaal Denken (2023)
Marina Liontou Mochament : Expanded Inspiration: Metric Improvisation and Compositional Tools in Contemporary Modal Music (2023)
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Bárbara Varassi Pega’s The Art of Tango was published by Routledge in 2021. In the same year my paper ‘Zonder praktijk geen theorie: Over onderzoek naar niet-westerse muziek’ appeared in Resonanties: Verkenningen tussen kunsten en wetenschappen (ed. Marcel Cobussen) which was published by Leiden University Press.
Meanwhile my article ‘Mamia, Ammani and Other Bayadères’ had appeared in Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, and was reprinted several years later in Bharatanatyam: A Reader.
In 2008 I presented my ongoing research on the tour of five Indian dancers in Europe at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and in a special lecture at the conference India and the World which was organized by Wim van der Meer at the University of Amsterdam. Dance scholar Sunil Kothari called it the ‘highlight’ of the conference. ‘Illustrating with rare drawings and visuals,’ he wrote, ‘Joep brought to the fore, so far unpublished and unknown material on South Indian temple dancers who had travelled in Europe in 1838-1839.’