About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Esther Clinton earned her PhD in Folklore from Indiana University and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University. Her research interests include folk and popular narrative, Norse mythology, folklore of belief, proverbs, heavy metal studies, and Southeast Asian history and culture.
David Harnish is Professor and Chair of Music at the University of San Diego (USD). Author of Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth, and Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival (University of Hawaii Press, 2006) and co author/editor of Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia (Oxford University Press, 2011), he is a double Fulbright and National Foundation Scholar and has consulted for the BBC, National Geographic, Fulbright-mtvU Fellowships, and the Smithsonian Institution. As a performer, he has recorded Indonesian, jazz, North Indian, and Tejano musics with five different labels. He directs Gamelan Gunung Mas at USD and serves as Academic Liaison for the Kyoto Prize Symposium.
Brent Luvaas is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Culture and Communication at Drexel University and the new coeditor of Visual Anthropology Review. His work on independent, amateur, and DIY (Do It Yourself) cultural production in Indonesia and beyond has appeared in Cultural Anthropology, Visual Anthropology Review, Fashion Theory, and The International Journal of Cultural Studies, among other places. Luvaas is currently researching the impact of street-style bloggers on the international fashion industry. You can follow the progress of this project at www.urbanfieldnotes.com. His book, DIY Style: Fashion, Music, and Global Digital Cultures, was released by Berg Publishers in 2012.
Rebekah E. Moore is an American ethnomusicologist residing in Bali. She is Director of Music for BaliSpirit Group and a doctoral candidate in Ethno-musicology at Indiana University. Her dissertation is titled “Indie Music in Post-bomb Bali: Participant Practices, Scene Subjectivities.” Moore received her BA in Music (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2002) and MA in Ethnomusicology (University of Maryland, 2004). Research interests include Indonesia’s independent music scenes, music and social justice, music [End Page 195] and Internet practices, and music and indigenous land rights’ movements. Moore also works as a freelance journalist, concert organizer, and publicist for musicians and visual artists in Bali.
R. Anderson Sutton is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he has taught since 1982. His published scholarship includes three books and numerous articles on music in Indonesia, as well as articles and two edited volumes focusing on music in Korea. At Wisconsin, Sutton has served as Director of the Center for Southeast Asia Studies and directs the university’s Javanese gamelan ensemble. On numerous occasions he has conducted research in Central and East Java and South Sulawesi. His current research interests include musical improvisation, musical hybridity, and music in the popular media of Indonesia and Korea.
Jeremy Wallach is an ethnomusicologist and anthropologist specializing in popular music. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University, author of Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997–2001 (University of Wisconsin Press, 2008), and coeditor of Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music around the World (Duke University Press, 2011). Wallach’s writings have appeared in numerous venues, including Ethnomusicology, Indonesia, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, Wacana Seni Journal of Arts Discourse, and Popular Music History, and his research interests include Southeast Asia, critical social theory, music and technology, world beat, punk, dangdut, and heavy metal.
Andrew N. Weintraub is Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in ethnomusicology and popular music and directs the University Gamelan program. He is the author of Power Plays (2004) and Dangdut Stories (2010), editor of Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia (2011), and coeditor of Music and Cultural Rights (2008). Weintraub is the founder and lead singer of the Dangdut Cowboys, a Pittsburgh-based band that plays Indonesian popular music. He can be viewed on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5iKBFDlxmc.
Philip Yampolsky, Founding Director of the Robert E. Brown Center for World Music at the University of Illinois, recorded and edited the 20...
