About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Antonette Adiova is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor. She is currently finishing her dissertation, which examines forms of music and dance in festivals of the Bicol region, Philippines. She has taught classes for the university and participates in the University of Michigan Philippine kulintang and rondalla ensembles.
Susan M. Asai is an Associate Professor in the Music Department at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. As an ethnomusicologist, her current area of research and writing concerns the intersection of cultural politics, music, and identity in Asian American music. Other areas of publication and research include Japanese folk performing arts, the Asian American connection in jazz, and teaching Asian music. Her many interests include music as a form of protest and resistance, music in popular culture, and musical cultures of the African diaspora.
Boxi Chen graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in Music and a Master of Science in Statistics, focusing on pattern recognition. In music, her areas of interest are popular and computer music, especially music created by Asian Americans and its influence. She is also interested in creating music using artificial intelligence and other technological methods. She is currently working as a Research Consultant for United Health Group.
Bruno Deschênes is a composer, ethnomusicologist, world music journalist, and shakuhachi performer. As an independent scholar, his main field of research is the aesthetics of Japanese traditional music. He is also interested in the study of transmusicality, through which musicians, like himself, learn the music of a culture of which they are not native, including the teaching of it.
Ben Krakauer is a doctoral student and assistant instructor at the University of Texas at Austin. His research on Bengali Bauls connects to themes concerning the ethics of cultural tourism and how the influx of cosmopolitan patrons affects local communities and artists. He has taught banjo at the University of Virginia and Tufts University, and has performed on over 20 professional recordings, including productions by Acoustic Disc, CMH Records, and the Fiddle Masters DVD series. [End Page 180]
John Latartara is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Mississippi and received his doctorate in Theoretical Studies from the New England Conservatory of Music. His research interests include performance and timbre analysis using spectrographic technology. He has published on a wide variety of Western and non-Western music. He was awarded a research Fulbright to Thailand in 2008–2009 to study Thai classical music. Latartara is also a composer with music released on the Centaur, Visceralmedia, and Sachimay Records labels.
Peter Manuel has researched and published extensively on the music of India, the Caribbean, Spain, and elsewhere. His publications include the books Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India (1993), East Indian Music in the West Indies: Tan-Singing, Chutney, and the Making of Indo-Caribbean Culture (2000), and Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean (2009), along with two documentary videos, including Tassa Thunder: Folk Music from India to the Caribbean. He teaches Ethnomusicology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Jennifer Milioto Matsue is an ethnomusicologist specializing in modern Japanese music and culture. She has conducted research on a variety of music cultures in contemporary Japan including the Tokyo hardcore rock scene, nagauta, electronica and trance raves, and most recently, the increasingly popular world of wadaiko (Japanese ensemble drumming). She is the author of the monograph Making Music in Japan’s Underground: The Tokyo Hardcore Scene (Routledge, 2008), and is currently writing a book on the commodification of Japanese ensemble drumming in Kyoto.
Christopher A. Miller is Curator of the e-kiNETx and Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections in the Herberger Institute School of Dance at Arizona State University (ASU). He was previously the bibliographer for Southeast Asian Studies at ASU Libraries. His field research experience includes three years in Indonesia and two years in Myanmar, where he was a Blakemore Foundation Fellow. Currently, Miller is pursuing a PhD in Media Arts and Sciences from the School of Arts, Media + Engineering at Arizona State University.
David Pacun is currently an Associate Professor of Music Theory at...
