About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Nilanjana Bhattacharjya is an assistant professor of music at Colorado College where she teaches courses in popular music, ethnomusicology, music history, and Asian Studies. Her research focuses on music’s role in South Asian diasporic communities; globalization, migration, and the world music industry; and music and song sequences in the Bombay film. Her recent essay, “From Bombay to Bollywood: Tracking Cinematic and Musical Tours,” coauthored with Monika Mehta, appears in the edited collection, Planet Bollywood: The Transnational Travels of Hindi Song and Dance Sequences (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). She received her PhD from Cornell University.
Lei Ouyang Bryant (PhD and MA Ethnomusicology, University of Pittsburgh) is a visiting assistant professor of music at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Research interests include the Chinese Cultural Revolution, trans-national and transracial adoption, music video games, memory, race, identity, and popular culture. She has taught courses in music and culture of East Asia and Asian America at the University of Pittsburgh, Macalester College, and Skidmore College. She has published articles on songs and memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in The China Review and Asian Music.
Eric Hung is Assistant Professor of Music at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey. His current projects include a book on musical portrayals of East Asians in American film and television, and articles on 20th century British music and Japanese film music. Also an active pianist, he has been featured on Radio Hong Kong, and has performed in numerous cities in North America, Europe, and Australia. Dr. Hung received an ARCT in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, a BA in Music and Social Studies at Wesleyan University, and a PhD in Musicology from Stanford University. Prior to his arrival in New Jersey, he taught at Minnesota State University–Moorhead and the University of Montana.
Micah Martin is a senior music performance major at Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio. He is currently pursuing and applying to top-tier graduate schools for a Master’s and probable PhD in ethnomusicology. His research [End Page 162] interests are still quite broad, including music of the Middle East, India, Ireland, and the Caribbean. This past summer he spent several weeks in the Middle East doing music research/fieldwork among both the Bedouin in Jordan and the Druze people in Lebanon. In addition, he has performed and recorded in a variety of different styles, including jazz, Irish, Arabic, and classical Western.
Anne Prescott received her PhD in Ethnomusicology from Kent State University, and studied koto and shamisen in Japan for 8 years. She is currently the Associate Director of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and talks about/performs koto whenever and wherever she finds a captive audience.
Henry Spiller is an ethnomusicologist whose research focuses on Sundanese music and dance from West Java, Indonesia; he is an active performer of Indonesian music as well. He is the author of the award-winning Gamelan: The Traditional Sounds of Indonesia (ABC-CLIO, 2004), as well as many articles, dictionary entries, and reviews. He earned an MM in Harp Performance from Holy Names University and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from University of California, Berkeley. Currently he is Assistant Professor of Music at University of California, Davis, where he teaches courses in ethnomusicology and directs the Sundanese gamelan ensemble.
Sarah Weiss teaches in the Department of Music at Yale University. She is the author of Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender and the Music of Wayang in Central Java (KITLV Press, Leiden, 2006). Some of her recent projects include fieldwork in Indonesia on Robert Wilson’s I La Galigo and on innovation and ritual in contemporary wayang performance. In the Fall 2007 semester, Weiss initiated a group fieldwork project with her graduate students on the undergraduate a cappella singing world at Yale entitled “Singing Community.” Her research interests include gender, aesthetics, and hybridity in the musics and theatres of Southeast and East Asia. Sarah Weiss is the Audio/Visual Recording Review editor for Asian Music (as of Volume 39 Number 2).
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