Contributors
- Contributors
Rubén López Cano (lopezcano@yahoo.com) es profesor de Estética, Músicas del Mundo, Metodología de la investigación y Teoría del conocimiento en el de la Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. Dirige TRANS, revista transcultural de música. Es autor de los libros Música Plurifocal (México: JGH, 1997) y Música y Retórica en el Barroco (México: UNAM, 2000), así como de una cantidad ingente de artículos especializados en retórica musical, semiótica y musicología cognitiva.
Noriko Manabe (nmanabe@princeton.edu) is a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology and music theory at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has published articles on Japanese rap, Silvio Rodríguez, Cuban modernism, ringtones, the music business, and opera in Ethnomusicology, Trans, Asian Music, and edited volumes. She teaches at Brooklyn College and John Jay College and holds degrees from Yale and Stanford.
Peter Manuel (petermanuel3@aol.com) is a professor of ethnomusicology at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center. He has researched and published extensively on traditional and contemporary musics of the Caribbean, India, Spain, and elsewhere.
Timothy Rommen (trommen@sas.upenn.edu) specializes in the music of the Caribbean with particular interest in exploring the connections that continue dynamically to grow between Africa, the Caribbean, and North America. His first book, "Mek Some Noise": Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad (University of California Press, 2007), was awarded the Alan P. Merriam Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology in 2008. Rommen is also a contributing author to Excursions in World Music (5th edition) and to the Cambridge History of World Music (forthcoming). His current projects include a monograph exploring the popular musics of the Bahamas and a musical ethnography of the West Indian community in Philadelphia.
