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Contributors T. ChriSToPher aPlin is a musician, researcher, and writer from Oklahoma . He has a masters of music from the University of Oklahoma– Norman, where he focused on American Indian musical practice and independent rock and pop music making within the state as both a researcher and a performer. At present, he works with the American Indian Culture and Research Journal at the University of California–Los Angeles, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology. Tara Browner (Choctaw) is professor of ethnomusicology and American Indian studies at the University of California–Los Angeles. She is the author of Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-wow (University of Illinois Press, 2002), and has published in the journals American Music, Journal of Musicological Research, and Ethnomusicology. Professor Browner is active as a dancer in the Women’s Southern Cloth style. Paula Conlon is associate professor of music at the University of Oklahoma . She has been studying First Nations music and dance in Canada since the early 1980s when she wrote her master’s thesis on the Canadian Amerindian flute. In 1993, she earned a Ph.D. in musicology/ ethnomusicology from the University of Montreal; her dissertation is a semiotic analysis of three hundred Inuit drum-dance songs under the guidance of Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Since moving to Oklahoma in 1996, Dr. Conlon has participated in and attended a large variety of Native American ceremonials and social dances, given lecture recitals on Native American flute in Oklahoma and surrounding states, and written a biography of noted Comanche flutist-artist Doc Tate Nevaquaya, forthcoming from the University of Oklahoma Press. At the University of Oklahoma School of Music, Professor Conlon teaches world music, Native American music, and ethnomusicology classes at both the graduate and the undergraduate levels. david e. draPer (Choctaw) received an interdisciplinary doctoral degree in music and anthropology from Tulane University. His primary re- search and subsequent publications have focused on Afro-American and North American Indian music and culture. After holding teaching positions at California State University–Bakersfield and the University of California–Los Angeles, he is currently on the faculty of Delgado College in New Orleans. His interest in folklore resulted in serving two terms on the Board of the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. elaine Keillor has been a professor at Carleton University in Ottawa since 1977, lecturing on Canadian musics, baroque and classical periods, ethnomusicology, and piano literature. She introduced the first Canadian university course on Canadian aboriginal musical expressions and is grateful to many elders and teachers who have willingly shared their wisdom on this subject. Her publications include monographs on aspects of Canadian music and essays in various encyclopedias and books, including the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. In 2004 she received the Helmut Kallmann Prize for Distinguished Service to Canadian musical research and performance. She is the leader of the team producing the Web site on aboriginal music, Native Drums, found at http://nativedrums.ca/. luCy lafferTy (Dogrib Nation) was born near Hislop Lake, Northwest Territories. Lucy (Lisi in Dogrib) was surrounded with the singing of her parents about the land, its animals, and hearing stories from her grandparents. Before she was sent to spend ten months of the year at various residential schools beginning at the age of six, she had developed a keen appreciation of the songs used for Ti dances and for traditional Dogrib (Tli Cho) hand games. After completing her high school education, she became a teacher’s assistant, and eventually a teacher, as she completed a bachelor of education degree at the University of Saskatchewan. Involved with the development of the Dene kede curriculum and standardizing the Dogrib alphabet in Roman orthography, Lucy became a school principal and is now director of education for the Dogrib Region. margareT Paul (Passamaquoddy) is a traditional singer and drum keeper with the Wabanoag Singers at St. Mary’s Reserve, New Brunswick. In 2002 she was invited to perform for the ambassadors of the world in Paris and in 2003 she sang for Queen Elizabeth on the occasion of her visit to Fredericton. Maggie was also asked to participate on the compact disc Heartbeat 2: More Voices of First Nations Women, produced in collaboration with National Museum of American History and Smithsonian Folkways. As a respected elder, Maggie also conducts 162 Contributors [3.142.174.55] Project MUSE...

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