About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Shalini Ayyagari is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on regional musics in North India. Ayyagari is currently conducting doctoral dissertation research in India and is examining the increasing institutionalization of musical practices among the Manganiar, a community of hereditary caste musicians in Rajasthan.
Michael Bodden received his PhD from the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1993. He is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada) and has written and published widely on Indonesian theatre, literature, and popular culture.
Martin Clayton works in the music department of the Open University, where he is also Chair of the Musics and Cultures Research Group. He served (with Suzel Ana Riley) as Editor of the British Journal of Ethnomusicology from 1998–2001. His recent publications include Time in Indian Music: Rhythm, Metre and Form in North Indian Rag Performance (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Reed Andrew Criddle is a graduate student at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he studies Choral Conducting with Dr. William Weinert. He is a graduate of Stanford University, where he received his BA with honors in Music and Chinese and his MA in East Asian Studies, with a focus in early Chinese literature. He then studied the er-hu and small ruan with Buddhist nuns at the Foguangshan temple in the hills near Kaohsiung, Taiwan. His research interests in the field of ethnomusicology span from ancient Chinese musical treatises to modern trends in the Chinese choral genre, particularly the promulgation of Buddhist chant.
Andrew McGraw is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Richmond. He received an MA from Tufts University and a PhD from Wesleyan University. His doctoral research was supported by a Fulbright-Hays fellowship and an Indonesian Dharmasiswa award for study at the national conservatory in Bali. His research has focused primarily on music in Indonesia, specifically avant-garde music by Balinese composers. He has studied traditional music in Bali, Central Java, and Northern Thailand. [End Page 157]
Ahmad Sarmast is a native of Afghanistan and a son of the late Ustad Sarmast, a highly respected Afghan musician. He received his PhD in music from Monash University, Australia in 2005 and his MA in musicology from the Moscow State Conservatorium in 1993. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Music-Conservatorium and in the Monash Asia Institute. His research areas include music in Afghanistan, North India, Central Asia, and Iran. His publications include Ūstād Mohammad Salim Sarmast: a 20th Century Afghan Composer, and the First Symphonic Score of Afghanistan (Monash Asia Institute 2000).
David Trasoff completed his PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999, on the topic “Sarod Performance Practice in the Twentieth Century: Tradition and Transformation in North Indian Classical Instrumental Music.” He has taught at the University of California Santa Barbara, California State University San Marcos, California State University Fullerton, University of California Riverside and the California Institute of the Arts. A senior disciple of renowned sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Dr. Trasoff has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and India. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Margaret E. Walker completed her PhD in Musicology/Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto, where she studied under the guidance of James Kippen. Her doctoral thesis, “Kathak Dance: A Critical History” examined the reconstructed history of dance in North India. She has studied Kathak dance since 1997 and has visited India four times conducting fieldwork. Dr. Walker is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Music in Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada.
John Winzenburg is Assistant Professor of Music at Agnes Scott College. Dr. Winzenburg has a BA in East Asian Studies from Hamline University in St. Paul, MN, a MA in choral conducting from the University of Minnesota, and a doctorate in orchestral conducting from the University of Iowa, where his dissertation featured the fusion of Chinese and Western music. He assumed conducting duties of the Collegiate chorale, Sotto Voce, and the ASC community Orchestra in the fall of 2005...
