David Reck, born in 1935 in Texas, is a musicologist specializing in Indian music. He studied at the University of Texas, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Tamil Nadu College of Karnatik Music in India. Reck has been a freelance composer and musician and a professor of music at Amherst College and the New School for Social Research. Reck wrote Music of the Whole Earth in 1977. It was reprinted by Da Capo Press in 1997.
Reck has received several Rockefeller arts grants and a Guggenheim fellowship. He is married to Carol Reck, a photographer.
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