About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Benjamin Brinner is Chair of the Department of Music and holds the Henry and Julia Weisman Schutt Chair in Music at the University of California–Berkeley, where he earned his PhD. His first book, Knowing Music, Making Music: Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Musical Competence and Interaction (University of Chicago Press, 1995) won ASCAP’s Deems Taylor Award. Playing Across a Divide: Musical Encounters in a Contested Land, on musical collaborations between Jews and Arabs in Israel (Oxford University Press, 2010) was awarded the 2010 Alan P. Merriam Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Mark Kligman is Professor of Jewish Musicology at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, where he teaches in the School of Sacred Music. He is coeditor of Musica Judaica, academic chair of the Jewish Music Forum, and on the board of the American Society of Jewish Music. Focusing on liturgical traditions of Middle Eastern Jewish communities, Dr. Kligman has published on the liturgy of Syrian Jews; Maqam and Liturgy: Ritual Music and Aesthetics of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn (Wayne State University Press, 2009) explores the connection of Arab music and aesthetics.
Joseph S. C. Lam is an ethnomusicologist and historian of Chinese music and culture. His recent publications include “Chinese Music and Its Globalized Past and Present” (Macalester International, 2008) and “Music and Eroticism in Late Ming Texts” (Nannü, 2011). Currently, Lam is working on a monograph entitled Kunqu, the Classical Opera of Globalized China, and a Chinese edition of his writings on Song dynasty (960–1275) music.
Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University. She conducted research on the interrelationships of language and music in the narrative arts of Tianjin, China as a Fulbright-Hays and National Academy of Sciences Research Fellow. Her book, The Narrative Arts of Tianjin: Between Music and Language (Ashgate, 2011), is currently available as part of the SOAS Musicology Series. She has also published under the name Francesca Rebollo-Sborgi.
Nathan Light is a folklorist and cultural anthropologist who works in Central Asia. His fieldwork in Xinjiang, China, resulted in several articles and a book, [End Page 150] Intimate Heritage: Creating Uyghur Muqam Song in Xinjiang (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2008). He is currently a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology where he investigates Kyrgyz kinship and social exchange as part of a comparative project on Economy and Ritual in post-socialist countries.
Hsin-chun Tasaw Lu is an assistant research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology in Taiwan’s Academia Sinica. She received her PhD in 2007 from the University of California–Los Angeles, with a principal geocultural specialty on Burma and its diasporas. Her scholarly interests focus on the issues of identity formation and cultural representation. She has published articles recently in the Journal of Burma Studies, Fontes Artis Musicae, and the Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore (Min-su ch’ü-i).
Maria Mendonça is Assistant Professor in Asian Music and Culture in the Anthropology and Music Departments at Kenyon College, Ohio. She has worked as an ethnomusicologist in a variety of settings in the United Kingdom and United States, including Ethnomusicology Editor for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. She advises and leads gamelan and community music education projects for various British arts institutions, including the South Bank Centre, London; the BBC Symphony Orchestra; St David’s Hall, Cardiff; and the Hallé Orchestra, Manchester.
Kwok-Wai Ng completed his PhD at The University of Sydney. His research is on the transmission and development of Tang music (tōgaku) in Japan, focusing on aspects of musical notation, the structure of modes, the use of ornaments, and orally transmitted performance techniques. Dr. Ng is currently a Lecturer at the Division of Communication and Social Sciences of the Hong Kong Community College, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
J. Lawrence Witzleben, Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland-College Park, is the author of Silk and Bamboo Music in Shanghai: The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition (Kent State University Press, 1995), and coeditor (with Robert C. Provine and Yosihiko Tokumaru) of...
