About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Sarah Anaïs Andrieu is Associate Researcher at CASE (Centre Asie du Sud-Est). She obtained her PhD in social anthropology and ethnology at L'École des Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris, France) in 2010. Her research focus is on traditional Indonesian performances and practices (especially Sundanese wayang golek) and on heritagization processes. Her analyses articulate multiple levels, such as international organizations' actions, national government policies, and local practices. She is the author of Corps de bois, souffle humain: Le théâtre de marionnettes wayang golek de Java Ouest (Presses universitaire de Rennes, 2014) and winner of the UQAM-Respatrimoni Prize in Heritage Studies (2012).
Megan Collins is a Wellington-based ethnomusicologist and performer of the Indonesian Rabab Pasisia Selatan who received her PhD from Victoria University of Wellington in 2003. She has presented her research internationally and has performed at WOMAD, OPERA/AMCOS Music Awards, and Beijing's World Music Days. She has written and hosted Music Migrations, West Sumatran Composers, and other ethnomusicological documentaries for Radio New Zealand (https://sumatransounds.com/radio/) and manages the performance community, Gamelan Wellington, based at Victoria University. She studied performance for two years at Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) in Padangpanjang, West Sumatra. She is currently a consultant at GNS Science.
Nancy Guy is Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego. Her broad interests include the musics of Taiwan and China, varieties of opera (including European and Chinese), music and politics, and the ecocritical study of music. Her first book, Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan (University of Illinois Press, 2005), won the ASCAP Béla Bartók Award for Excellence in Ethnomusicology and was named an "Outstanding Academic Title for 2006" by Choice. Guy's second book, The Magic of Beverly Sills (University of Illinois Press, 2015), focuses on the artistry and appeal of the beloved American soprano.
Jayoung Joo is a PhD student in cultural studies at Chung-ang University, Seoul, South Korea. She holds a master's degree in ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin. Her current research focuses on Korean popular music culture.
Richard Miller is an Assistant Professor in the School of Music, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has MM and PhD degrees in ethnomusicology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Experienced in both historical and anthropological approaches to research, he has conducted fieldwork and archival research in the United States, Indonesia, and Japan. His research emphasizes the intersection of history, social science, music, and education, with current projects on the history of Latin music in Asia, the rise of Western-style music and musicology in East Asia, applications of participatory media to music education, and issues of diversity in educational systems.
Amy D. Simon toured internationally for several years as an orchestral clarinetist with Shen Yun Performing Arts and has taught musicology at the University of Prince Edward Island. She has a PhD in ethnomusicology from York University in Toronto and an MMus in clarinet performance from the University of Victoria, BC. She performs with the Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra and is a student of the Japanese shakuhachi.
János Sipos is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and also Lecturer at the Folk Music Department of the Franz Liszt Music Academy, Budapest. Since 1987 he has undertaken research in Anatolia, Thrace, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Karachay-Cherkessia in the Caucasus Mountains. He has published 16 books in various languages, the most recent of which is Kyrgyz Folk-songs (l'Harmattan, 2017). His research has been supported by Fulbright and Mellon Fellowships, the Tokyo Foundation, the British Academy, the Arnold Stein Exploration Foundation, and the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund.
Christina Sunardi is an Associate Professor in the School of Music at the University of Washington, where she is currently chair of the Ethnomusicology Program. Her interests include performance, identity, gender, spirituality, and ethnography in Indonesia. She has been studying and performing Javanese music and dance since 1997 in Indonesia and the United States, earning her PhD in music from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007. Her publications include Stunning Males and Powerful Females: Gender and Tradition...
