About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Alison Arnold teaches in the departments of Music and Multidisciplinary Studies at North Carolina State University. Her research interests include the music of India and Indian American music and culture. She is currently studying Hindustani vocal music and researching North Indian vocal music transmission in North Carolina. She is the editor of the South Asia volume of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (Garland, 2000), and has published articles on Indian film music and the music of Indian Americans.
Michael Bodden received his Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin–Madison, in 1993. He is currently an associate professor in and chair of the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). He has written and published widely on Indonesian theatre, literature, and popular culture.
Greg Booth received his Ph.D. in music from Kent State University in 1986 and was appointed to his current position in Ethnomusicology at the University of Auckland in 1993. He has been conducting research on music and culture in South Asia since 1981 and performs Hindustani classical music on tabla as a student of Ustad Zakir Hussain. Dr. Booth has published research on the gurushishya parampara, brass and wedding bands, popular music, and Hindi films and film music. He is currently engaged in field work in Mumbai on film music and musicians. His monograph on South Asian brass bands is currently in press with Oxford University Press.
David Goldsworthy is an ethnomusicologist with special research interests, expertise, and publications in the fields of Indonesian music (especially Java and Sumatra) and music of the Pacific. He is currently employed as a senior lecturer in music at the University of New England, Armidale, where he leads the university’s Indonesian gamelan group. Other performance interests and expertise include Cook Island music and dance, Japanese koto and san shin music, Hawaiian hula chant and dance, and West African percussion and dance. Over the last five years, David’s research and publications have centered on gamelan degung music of West Java, and popular music of the Pacific. [End Page 129]
Rolf Groesbeck is an associate professor of music history at the University of Arkansas–Little Rock. His Ph.D. dissertation, completed in 1995 in the Department of Ethnomusicology at New York University, is on Tayampaka, a genre of Kerala temple drumming. He has published articles in Ethnomusicology, Asian Music, Yearbook for Traditional Music, The Garland Encyclopedia for World Music, and the Indian journal Kalasamskaram (forthcoming). He has performed centa (a Kerala drum) in numerous locations in Kerala and in the United States.
Tong Soon Lee teaches ethnomusicology at Emory University and has done research on music and issues of nationalism, diaspora, and cultural entrepreneurship in Singapore, Malaysia, and England. He is currently editor of the SEM Newsletter, a board member of the Society for Asian Music, and has published in Ethnomusicology, Asian Music, and Yearbook for Traditional Music.
Terry Miller was born and raised in Ohio, graduating from the College of Wooster in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in organ. While a graduate student at Indiana, he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1968 and eventually served a year in Vietnam, an experience that prompted his conversion to ethnomusicology. His dissertation on the music of northeastern Thailand was researched in the period 1973–4. Since that time, he has returned to Thailand (and the Northeast) periodically, and continues to follow musical developments there. He taught at Kent State University from 1975 until retiring in January 2005.
Manolete Mora is an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has published articles and CDs on music in the Philippines and Ghana, and has produced computer-based and multimedia teaching materials on the Balinese gamelan gong kebyar. His forthcoming book on music in the Philippines will be published by Ateneo University Press.
Barley Norton is senior lecturer in music at Roehampton University in London. He gained a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2000 and has published several articles on Vietnamese music. He is currently completing a book on music and spirit possession in Vietnam.
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