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Richard Bauman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Communication and Culture, and Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington. The principal foci of his research include narrative, oral poetics, performance, genre, and language ideologies. He has done fieldwork in Scotland, Nova Scotia, Texas, and Mexico, historical research on early Quakers and medieval Iceland, and is currently engaged in research on the meta-pragmatics of early commercial sound recordings. Among his publications are Verbal Art as Performance; Story, Performance, and Event; Voices of Modernity (with Charles L. Briggs), and A World of Others' Words.
Charles L. Briggs is the Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor of Folklore at the University of California, Berkeley.
María Herrera-Sobek is Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Academic Policy, and Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literature from UCL A. She has published over 150 articles and single-authored, edited, and co-edited twenty books, including The Mexican Corrido: A Feminist Analysis, Northward Bound: The Mexican Immigrant Experience in Ballad and Song, and Chicano Folklore: A Handbook. Herrera-Sobek is Associate Editor of the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature and is presently working on the Encyclopedia of Latino Folklore (forthcoming 2013).
George Lipsitz is Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of ten books, including How Racism Takes Place, Midnight at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story, and Footsteps in the Dark.
John Holmes McDowell is Chair of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, where he also directs the Minority Languages and Cultures of Latin America Program, supervises the Folklore Archives, and edits the Journal of Folklore Research Reviews. His ethnographic research is primarily in Mexico and the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador, where he attends to traditional and emerging expressive forms as they engage processes of play, commemoration, and folklorization.
Olga Nájera-Ramírez, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, received her PhD in Anthropology and her MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas, Austin. As an anthropologist specializing in folklore, her work concentrates on documenting and critically examining expressive cultural forms such as festivals, dance, rodeo, and music as practiced by Mexicans living in [End Page 135] the United States and Mexico. In particular, she examines the ways in which expressive forms are invested with meaning, transmitted, experienced, and otherwise employed by members and non-members of a community.
Américo Paredes (September 13, 1915–May 5, 1999) was a brilliant and distinguished Mexican American scholar. He was the founder of the Center for Folklore Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Paredes's groundbreaking book "With a Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and Its Hero established his reputation as the founding scholar of Mexican American and Chicano Studies. Paredes continued publishing seminal articles in folklore as well as other important books, such as A Texas-Mexican Cancionero: Folksongs of the Lower Border. In addition, Paredes wrote poetry and the novel, George Washington Gómez.
Russell Rodríguez is currently working on his manuscript Mariachi: Performing the Soundscape of Greater Mexico. He has chapters in the anthologies, Inside the Latin@ Experience: A Latin@ Studies Anthology and Dancing Across Borders: Danzas y Bailes Mexicanos. He has also contributed as a producer and annotator for various recordings for the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Beverly J. Stoeltje is Professor of Anthropology and Folklore & Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is affiliated faculty with the African Studies Program, American Studies, and Gender Studies. She has done research in Ghana with Queen Mothers and Chiefs, and the institution of Chieftaincy in contemporary Ghana. She concentrates in particular on the anthropology of law as it relates to the traditional courts and the Asante legal system. She has published numerous articles in professional journals and chapters in books. She co-edited Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Gender, Contests, and Power with Colleen Cohen and Rick Wilk. She has also published on rodeo as ritual and festival. Gender, ritual, legal anthropology, and nationalism are her areas of expertise. [End Page...
