About the Authors
- About the Authors
Susan Thomas (suthomas@uga.edu) is an associate professor of musicology and women’s studies at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana’s Lyric Stage (University of Illinois Press, 2009) as well as many book chapters and journal articles, including publications in The Journal of Popular Music Studies, Latin American Music Review, Cuba Transnational (ed. Fernández, 2005), Screening Songs in Hispanic and Lusophone Cinema (ed. Shaw and Stone, 2012), Musics of Latin America (ed. Moore, 2012), and Habáname: La ciudad musical de Carlos Varela (ed. Dubinsky & Cumaná, 2014). She has held multiple research fellowships, including the Santander Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and the Greenleaf Visiting Scholar at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University.
Siu-Lan Tan (siulan.tan@gmail.com) is a professor of psychology at Kalamazoo College. She completed degrees in Music at Pacific Union College, graduate studies at Oxford University, and a PhD in psychology at Georgetown University. Tan is first author of the book Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance (Routledge, 2010) and coeditor of The Psychology of Music in Multimedia (Oxford University Press, 2013). Her research focuses on listeners’ perceptions of musical unity, graphic representations of music, and the role of music in film and other multimedia, and appears in Music Perception; Psychology of Music; Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain; College Music Symposium; and Empirical Musicology Review, among other journals. She serves on the board of directors of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. In her (little) spare time, she blogs about film, music, and human development at https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/what-shapes-film.
Tobias Pontara (tobias.pontara@gu.se) is an associate professor in musicology at the University of Gothenburg. Pontara’s research interests lie chiefly in film music, music philosophy, and musical aesthetics, but he has also written on issues pertaining to musical autonomy as well as the cultural and epistemological status of historically informed performances. Among the journals in which he has published articles are 19th-Century Music; Philosophical Studies; [End Page 58] Music, Sound and the Moving Image; and International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. Pontara is currently working on a monograph examining the role and function of music in Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s films. [End Page 59]
