About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Beau Bothwell is Assistant Professor of Music at Kalamazoo College, where he teaches courses on Arab and non-Western music, music theory, and Western music history. He completed his doctorate in musicology at Columbia University in 2013, with a dissertation titled “Song, State, Sawa: Music and Political Radio between the US and Syria.” Bothwell has presented his work at the national meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology, American Musicological Society, and Society for American Music, as well as inter nationally. He has published work on musical rhetoric and the figure of Bashar al-Asad on Syrian radio in Music, Tyranny, and Resistance (Lexington Books, forthcoming) and on America’s radio broadcasts to the Arabophone world in Soundtrack to Conflict: The Role of Music in Radio Broadcasting in Wartime and Conflict Situations (Georg Olms Verlag, 2013). Bothwell is currently working on a book on Syrian radio since the start of the crisis.
Larry Oliver Catungal holds a BA Honors in music studies and MMus in ethnomusicology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His primary research interests lie in gong-chime cultures of Southeast Asia, notably Maguindanao kulintang, and Filipino identity construction through music in the diaspora.
Bruno Deschênes is a Canadian shakuhachi player, composer, and independent ethnomusicologist. His two main fields of research are the aesthetic of Japanese traditional music and “transmusicality,” a term that refers to those musicians who become masters of a music of which they are not native. In January 2017, he published Le shakuhachi japonais, une tradition réinventée (The Japanese shakuhachi, a reinvented tradition) (Éditions L’Harmattan). It is the first book in French entirely dedicated to that bamboo flute. He received his shihan (master title) on the shakuhachi in 2016. He was given the geimei (artist name) Chikushin.
Yuko Eguchi is a native of Tokyo, Japan. She received a PhD in ethnomusicology in 2016 from the University of Pittsburgh where she has been affiliate faculty. She studied Japanese geisha’s music and dance, called kouta and koutaburi, and was granted the kouta master title Kasuga Toyo Yoshiyu in 2012. She also holds the assistant professor title of tea (Soyu), conferred by the [End Page 147] Urasenke school in 2013. She has performed and lectured on Japanese traditional arts at various conferences, including the AAS, AAP, SEM, NCTA, and at various colleges and universities. Visit her online at www.yukoeguchi.com.
Matt Gillan received his MMus (1999) and PhD (2004) in ethnomusicology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Since 2007 he has taught ethnomusicology at International Christian University in Tokyo and carries out research into Japanese musical traditions, particularly those of Okinawa. He is author of the monograph Songs from the Edge of Japan: Music Making in Yaeyama and Okinawa (Ashgate, 2012), as well as articles in Ethnomusicology, Asian Music, and other journals. He is also active as a performer of the Okinawan uta-sanshin tradition.
Ellen Koskoff is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music and Director of the Ethnomusicology Program. She writes about Jewish music, gender and music, and music cognition, including the title Music in Lubavitcher Life (University of Illinois Press, 2000), winner of the 2002 ASCAP Deems-Taylor award. Her most recent book is A Feminist Ethnomusicology (University of Illinois Press, 2014). She is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press’s Eastman/Rochester Studies in Ethnomusicology. A former president of the Society for Ethnomusicology, she currently serves as editor of the society’s journal, Ethnomusicology.
Pam Nilan is Professor of Sociology in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has been researching youth, popular culture, and gender in Indonesia since 1995. Her most recent book is Muslim Youth in the Diaspora: Challenging Extremism through Popular Culture (Routledge, 2017). E-mail: pamela.nilan@newcastle.edu.au.
Randy Raine-Reusch has been working in world music for more than 30 years as an international concert artist, producer, writer, organologist, artistic director, and consultant. He oversaw the creation and operation of the Rainforest World Music Festival in Sarawak, Malaysia (http://rwmf.net...
