About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Matthew Allen is Associate Professor of music and coordinator of Asian studies at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. Co-author of Music in South India with T. Viswanathan (Oxford University Press, 2004), he has recently finished an essay on the standardization of raga for an edited volume on performance in South India, and is conducting research on the guitar’s role in the evolution of functional harmony in multiple societies.
Michael Frishkopf, Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Alberta, is a graduate of the University of California–Los Angeles (PhD, music, 1999). Dr. Frishkopf’s current research interests include the music industry in the Arab world, Islamic ritual performance, digital archives, and algorithmic music recognition. He has performed fieldwork in Egypt and in Ghana.
Paul D. Greene is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Pennsylvania State University, specializing in musical cultures of India, the Himalayas, and Myanmar (Burma). His research engages ritual, pilgrimage, body, and terrain in Buddhist musical traditions, and also electronic sound technologies in world musics. He holds degrees from Harvard University (AB) and the University of Pennsylvania (PhD), and is editor of several journal issues and book volumes in ethnomusicology, including Wired for Sound: Engineering and Technologies in Sonic Cultures (Wesleyan University Press, 2005). He is author of more than thirty articles, appearing in Ethnomusicology, Asian Music, World of Music, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Saxophone Symposium, Popular Music, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, and other contexts.
Rolf Groesbeck is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He lived and studied centa in Kerala, with Kalamandalam Balaraman, for over two years, receiving a fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies. Groesbeck’s PhD dissertation (1995) from New York University (NYU) was on Tayampaka, and since then he has published articles on different aspects of Kerala music in Ethnomusicology, Asian Music, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, and Kalasamskaram (an Indian journal). [End Page 178]
Edward O. Henry earned his BS degree from General Motors Institute of Technology (now Kettering University) but, propelled by his interest in folk music and the music of South Asia, chose to pursue advanced studies in ethnomusicology and anthropology, and earned a doctorate from Michigan State University in anthropology. With funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Fulbright Program, and San Diego State University, his primary field studies have been in rural eastern Uttar Pradesh and western Bihar, India. His findings and interpretations have been published in a book, Chant the Names of God (San Diego State University Press, 1988); a long-playing record; a compact disk, Women’s Songs from India (Rounder.com); and articles in Ethnomusicology, Asian Music, and Journal of Anthropological Research. He continues to teach anthropology at San Diego State University, and lives in La Mesa with his wife and daughter.
Benjamin D. Koen is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Florida State University where he specializes in medical, cognitive, and applied ethnomusicology. His publications appear in Ethnomusicology, World of Music, Studies on Persianate Societies, Fonus, and Encyclopaedia Iranica. He is currently co-editing a volume titled Music, Medicine, & Culture: Medical Ethnomusicology and Global Perspectives on Health and Healing and writing a monograph that explores the music, prayer, and healing practices in Badakhshan, Tajikistan.
David W. Music is Professor of Church Music and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Music at Baylor University. His research interests are primarily in the history of hymnody and in early American music. His books include Hymnology: A Collection of Source Readings (Scarecrow Press, 1996), Instruments in Church: A Collection of Source Documents (Scarecrow Press, 1998), and Christian Hymnody in Twentieth-Century Britain and America: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 2001). He has also published editions of music by John Weldon, Oliver Holden, and southern U. S. shape-note tune book compilers of the early nineteenth century.
Ruby Ornstein is an ethnomusicologist who studies Balinese kebyar music. She studied with Colin McPhee at the University of California–Los Angeles’s Institute of Ethnomusicology. She was the first postwar music researcher in Bali, and her doctoral dissertation on kebyar was the first to trace the development of a Balinese musical...
