About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Gregory D. Booth is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Auckland and has been engaged in the study of Indian music and culture for more than 30 years. He is the author of two books, Behind the Curtain: Making Music in Mumbai’s Film Studios (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Brass Baja: Stories from the World of Indian Wedding Bands (Oxford University Press, 2005), and numerous articles on music, film, industry, and culture in South Asia. He is currently studying India’s music and film-culture industries, focusing on a wide range of factors, including intellectual property, technology, industrial structures, and the music-film relationship.
Joep Bor is Professor at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University. In 1990 he founded the World Music Department at Rotterdam Conservatory. In addition to some hundred articles and book chapters, he has written and edited four books and two catalogues. Bor spent more than eight years in India, studying sarangi and carrying out botanical as well as musicological research. See http://joepbor.com/.
Alexander M. Cannon is Assistant Professor of Music History and Ethno-musicology in the School of Music at Western Michigan University. He holds a BA in music and economics from Pomona College and both an MA and PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan. His research investigates creativity in scenes of southern Vietnamese music performance; he is published in Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology Forum, and the Journal of Vietnamese Studies.
Bruno Deschênes is a composer, ethnomusicologist, world music journalist, and shakuhachi performer. His main field of research as an independent scholar is the aesthetics of Japanese traditional music. He is also interested in the study of transmusicality, through which musicians, like himself, learn the music of a culture of which they are not native, including the teaching of it.
Stéphane Dorin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Limoges (France). He has studied the diffusion of jazz and rock music in Calcutta since the end of the 1990s, earning his PhD from the EHESS (Paris) in 2005. His research interests include the transformations of musical taste in the digital age [End Page 149] and the global circulations of jazz and rock music. Dorin has authored Calcutta Song: Globalization and Western Popular Music in India (Editions des Archives contemporaines, forthcoming).
Leslie R. Hall is Associate Professor of Music at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her PhD thesis focused on Ottoman art music. Hall has published articles on the International Istanbul Music Festival and Latin dance and figure skating in Canada and coauthored articles on the effects of music on patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She was president of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music from 1997 to 2001.
LeRon James Harrison is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. His research on gagaku explores the uses of the music in both premodern and contemporary moments. He is currently working on a manuscript that considers foreign practitioners of Japanese cultural practices such as gagaku, koto, and tea and the applicability of the term “transnational.” Harrison is also a practitioner of gagaku, having been a member of gagaku ensembles in Los Angeles and Japan, and is currently a member of the Northern California Gagaku Group.
Jane Harvey teaches Indian music history and culture, raga composition, and Indian music theory in the World Music Department at Codarts Rotterdam (Rotterdam Conservatory). She has studied Indian classical vocal music since 1979 and edits books and articles on Hindustani music. She can be contacted through jkharvey@codarts.nl.
Lawrence N. Ross received his PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, in 2011. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the Academy of Malay Studies, University of Malaya, where his research and writing focus on musical traditions of the Malayan Peninsula and their connections to neighboring Thailand, Indonesia, and Indochina.
W. Anthony Sheppard is Professor of Music at Williams College. He is the author of Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater and of the forthcoming Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination. Currently, he is completing his term as editor in chief of the Journal...
