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Esra Berkman completed her PhD at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul. Her dissertation was entitled “Kanun Virtuoso, Composer and Educator Khachatur Avetisian (1926–1996) and Conversion of Music in the Context of Kanun Instrument in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.” She is a professional kanun player, regularly premiering new works with contemporary musical ensembles. She performs in Turkey and abroad with pianist Nazlı Işildak as Kanun Piano Duo. Having published works in Turkish and various international academic journals, Berkman has been a research assistant at the Department of Music and Performance Arts at Yıldız Technical University Art and Design Faculty since 2007.

Lars Christensen is a PhD candidate in music at the University of Minnesota. His dissertation, “Interpreting Music Reconstruction in the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127),” analyzes the discursive strategies of the music reform treatise Huangyou xinyue tuji in relation to contemporary political and intellectual history. Christensen is also a performer of Javanese gamelan.

Mercedes M. Dujunco taught ethnomusicology at Bard College (New York). She holds a research associate position there while working as Academic Music Program Coordinator and teaching music theory at the Central Conservatory Preparatory School in Beijing. Her research focuses on the wind and string ensemble music of the Chaozhou region in eastern Guangdong Province, including its role in Southeast Asia for the affirmation and maintenance of Chaozhou cultural identity. She is co-editing a volume on music and ritual in the Chinese-speaking world and writing a book on various silk and bamboo music traditions of South China.

Henry Johnson is Professor in the Department of Music, University of Otago, New Zealand. His primary research interests are in the fields of ethnomusicology, Island studies, and Asian studies. He has undertaken research on many small island cultures and has published in Shima, Journal of Marine and Island Cultures, and Island Studies Journal. His most recent book, The Shakuhachi: Roots and Routes (2014), is published by Brill.

Sunhee Koo is Lecturer in Ethnomusicology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her primary area of research is Northeast Asia, specifically the music of China, North Korea, and [End Page 164] South Korea. Her research explores issues of migration, identity, agency, and state power. Her recent ethnographic study includes the performing arts and identity negotiation of North Korean defectors in South Korea. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the music of diasporic Koreans in China, which will be published by the University of Hawai‘i Press.

Sueo Kuwahara is Professor of Anthropology at Kagoshima University, Japan. He has conducted fieldwork in Malaysia, Micronesia, and Japan’s southwestern archipelago. His research interest is in the influence of globalization on island cultures and societies. More recently he edited a book on the islands of Kagoshima.

Matt Rahaim is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Minnesota and is an affiliate member of Religious Studies and Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media. His book Musicking Bodies: Gesture and Voice in Hindustani Music was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2012. His new project, Voice Cultures, deals with the intertwining of ethics and aesthetics in various traditions of Indian voice production. He has written about the harmonium, evolutionary models, vocal phenomenology, and the implications of Levinasian ethics for ethnography. Rahaim is also a performer of Hindustani vocal music.

Srinivas Reddy began studying Sanskrit with his grandfather. Later he trained in classical South Asian languages and literatures at Brown University and the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010 Penguin Books published his Giver of the Worn Garland, a literary translation of Krishnadeveraya’s Telugu epic Āmuktamālyada. His most recent publication is The Dancer and the King, a fresh translation of Kalidasa’s first play, Mālavikāgnimitram. Reddy is also a concert sitarist and has given numerous recitals around the world. Presently he lives in Ahmedabad and teaches at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.

Anna Stirr is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She has previously researched and taught at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Oxford University, and The New School. She received a PhD in ethnomusicology from...

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