About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Estelle Amy de la Bretèque currently holds a postdoctoral research position at the Instituto de Ethnomusicologia—Música e Dança, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Ethnomusicology Institute—Music and Dance, New University of Lisbon). She completed her doctoral thesis at the University Paris-Ouest on melodized speech and narratives of sorrow among the Yezidis of Armenia in 2010 (published as Paroles mélodisées. Récits épiques et lamentations chez les Yézidis d’Arménie [Melodized speech. Epic stories and lamentations among the Yezidis of Armenia], Classiques-Garnier edition, 2013). She previously conducted research on mourning ceremonies in Azerbaijan and on the laments of displaced Kurdish women in the suburbs of Istanbul and Diyarbakir.
Benjamin Brinner is Professor in the Department of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his PhD. His first book, Knowing Music, Making Music: Javanese Gamelan and the Theory of Musical Competence and Interaction (University of Chicago Press, 1995), won ASCAP’s Deems Taylor Award. Playing across a Divide: Musical Encounters in a Contested Land, on musical collaborations between Jews and Arabs in Israel (Oxford University Press, 2010), was awarded the 2010 Alan P. Merriam Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology. He is also the author of Music in Central Java: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture in the Oxford University Press Global Music Series (2008) and numerous articles on Javanese music. He is currently writing a book on expert memory for music, focusing principally on Javanese gamelan musicians.
Jeffrey M. Dyer, after graduating with honors in music from Hamilton College, completed a Watson Fellowship, researching Khmer music in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam. He earned an MAT from Tufts University and has taught English at Expeditionary Learning schools, such as Northpoint Expeditionary Learning Academy in Arizona and Christa McAuliffe Charter School in Massachusetts. In 2013, he received a Fund for Teachers fellowship to research music in North India, and he has organized student trips to Cambodia and Vietnam. Dyer is currently in the first year of Boston University’s doctoral program in ethnomusicology.
Gisa Jähnichen is currently working on musicology, anthropology, and audio visual archiving. She obtained her magister in musicology and regional [End Page 152] studies on Southeast Asia from Charles University, Prague; her PhD in musicology from Humboldt University, Berlin; and her habilitation in ethnomusicology from the University of Vienna. She has taught at various universities in Europe and Asia, most recently at the Guangxi Arts University. She is author of many publications in various languages and based on her extensive fieldwork. She is editor of Studia Instrumentorum Musicae Popularis (new series, MV-Wissenschaft) and the UPM Book Series on Music Research (UPM Press).
Evan Rapport is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Eugene Lang College and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. He is the author of Greeted with Smiles: Bukharian Jewish Music and Musicians in New York (Oxford University Press, 2014). He has published on subjects as wide ranging as punk rock’s relationship to the blues, arrangements of George Gershwin’s concert works, the idea of “ethnic music” in New York, and rap music. He is also a performing saxophonist.
Jeff Roy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Ethnomusicology at UCLA. His work incorporates theories and methodologies in gender studies, media studies, and documentary filmmaking and has been supported by fellowships and initiatives from Fulbright-Hays, Fulbright-mtvU, Film Independent, the American Institute for Indian Studies, and the Society for Asian Music. Roy is also a concert-level violinist in the Hindustani, Near East, and Western classical traditions. Before entering graduate school, Roy directed student orchestras in two St. Louis school districts and studied Hindustani violin intensively with sitār and surbahār master Ustad Imrat Khan.
Beth Szczepanski is Area Coordinator of World Music and Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She received her PhD in Ethnomusicology from Ohio State University in 2008. Her research interests include Buddhist music of China and the Chinese diaspora, and music and diplomacy. [End Page 153]
