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  • About the Contributors

Michael Frishkopf is an ethnomusicologist specializing in sounds of the Arab world, West Africa, and Islamic ritual. His research interests also include social network theory and digital multimedia repositories. He currently works at the University of Alberta, as Associate Professor in the Department of Music, Associate Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, and Associate Director for Multimedia at Folkways Alive.

Meilu Ho is currently completing a book manuscript based on her dissertation (UCLA 2006), "The Liturgical Music of the Pushti Marg of India. An Embryonic Form of the Classical Tradition." She has taught at the University of California, San Diego, and Science University Malaysia. Her work has addressed the contributions of the Hindu temple to Hindustani classical music, liturgical practice, aesthetics, raga, medieval Malay texts, Islamic court ensembles, and power. Recent articles and presentations discuss emotion and song, 19th century Indian religious nationalism, classical music, and Vaishnava involvement. Presently, she is also engaged in a social-historical study of diasporic Arab-Indian-Malay-Indonesian transnational music along the Indian Ocean, as well as current trends via land, as part of a broader interest in comparative Islamic genres. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Iowa, for 2007–2008.

János Kárpáti is a retired professor and head librarian of the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. He studied at the same institution with Kodály, Szabolcsi, and Bartha, receiving his PhD in 1968 and DSc in 1995. His main research fields in musicology include Bartók analysis and Japanese traditional music. He has served as vice-president of the International Association of Music Libraries (1980–1986) and as president of the Hungarian Musicological Society (1998–2007), and has lectured at universities in the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, France, and Italy. He is the recipient of the Erkel Prize (1971), the Grand Prize of Hungarian Creative Artists (1991), the Award for Excellence of the American Liszt Society (1996), and the Széchenyi Prize (2005). His publications include Bartók's String Quartets (Budapest: Corvina Press, 1975) and Bartók's Chamber Music (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1976) along with articles and books on various aspects of traditional music of Japan. [End Page 202]

Jay Keister is assistant professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and received his PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research in Japanese music concerns individual agency in music, traditional social structures in contemporary musical practice, and aesthetics of music and dance. He has conducted field research on contemporary performance practice of traditional music in Japan, which is the subject of his book, Shaped by Japanese Music (New York: Routledge, 2004). He has published articles on Japanese music in the journals Asian Music and The World of Music.

Heather MacLachlan is a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at Cornell University. Her work focuses on the music of indigenous peoples of Burma; she has previously published on music making among the Karen. Prior to beginning her doctorate, Heather worked as a public school music teacher in Canada.

Scott Marcus teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in the music of the eastern Arab world and North India. Scott teaches about the eastern Arab system of melodic modes (the maqamat) in both lecture and performance classes and in a variety of publications including the recent volume, Music In Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2006). Scott also teaches at two annual weeklong workshops, the Mendocino Middle Eastern Music & Dance Camp and the Wisconsin-based Heartland Seminar on Arabic Music.

Jan Mrázek is assistant professor at the National University of Singapore, where he teaches courses on Southeast Asian visual and performing arts, and plays and teaches Javanese and Thai music. He is the author of Phenomenology of a Puppet Theatre: Contemplations on the Art of the Javanese Wayang Kulit ( Leiden: KITLV Press, 2005), editor of Puppet Theater in Contemporary Indonesia: New Approaches to Performance Events (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2002), and co-editor of What's the Use of Art: Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context (2007).

Sumarsam is an adjunct professor of music at Wesleyan University...

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