About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Supeena Insee Adler is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, World Music Instrument Curator, and Director of the Music of Thailand Ensemble at UCLA. She is a native Thai and Lao speaker. Her 2014 dissertation, "Music for the Few: Nationalism and Thai Royal Authority," addressed a Thai royal musical tradition, power, and literature in Thai traditional music performance and is based on fieldwork conducted in the Thai Fine Arts Department and in the Thai Royal Navy and Air Force. Her other areas of interest are mediums, healing rituals, and music in Northeast Thailand and Southern Laos, as well as musical instruments and Okinawan min'yō.
Leonardo D'Amico is a Research Associate of Yunnan University Center for Ethnomusicology, Yunnan University, Kunming (China). His fields of research are Afro-Colombian music, sub-Saharan African music, and visual ethnomusicology. He earned a master's degree in Hispanic musicology (2010) and PhD cum laude in musicology (2012) from the University of Valladolid with a dissertation on visual ethnomusicology. He has published widely on Latin American and African topics and has recently directed two documentary films, Cantar l'ottava (2016) and Bulang Music (2017). He is director of the world music festival Musica dei Popoli and the Ethnomusicological Film Festival in Florence.
Megan E. Hill is the Managing Editor, Head Researcher, and Writer of the Music by Black Composers project of the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2016 with a dissertation on soundscapes in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. Her ongoing research interests and advocacy activities involve music and sound cultures in contemporary Japan; agency and place making in urban sonic environments; intersections of gender, sexuality, language, and music in Japanese popular music; and access to and awareness of historical and contemporary classical music making of Africans and the African diaspora.
Samuel Horlor holds a PhD from Durham University, where he currently teaches in ethnomusicology and popular music studies. His research on street music in China has focused on the events' relationships with the city environment and has led to an ongoing interest in music geography and the materiality of performance locations. He was an Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Musical Research in 2016–17. [End Page 178]
Meghan Hynson received her PhD from UCLA in 2015 and is now a lecturer and instructor of the gamelan at the University of Pittsburgh. Her doctoral research and current book project focuses on the Balinese wayang sapuh leger, an exorcistic form of shadow puppet theater, and addresses religious politics and the arts in postindependence Indonesia, the economics of mass rituals, the female role in Balinese shadow theater music, and shadow theater cassette culture. She has also published and presented on the use of West Javanese bamboo angklung in music education and cultural diplomacy and on cultural appropriation in American kirtan culture.
Maho A. Ishiguro holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University and a master's degree in historical musicology from University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a lecturer in the Department of Music at Yale University and director of the Central Javanese Gamelan Ensemble at Smith College. Her current research focuses on Islam and women's performing arts in Indonesia: Aceh province and Central Java. She is an avid practitioner of Acehnese dance, Javanese dance, and Central Javanese gamelan. Her scholarship is primarily based on her experience in the practice of performing arts and fieldwork.
Aaron Judd was born in Portland, Oregon, and raised both in Portland and in British Columbia. He studied music composition and English literature at Oberlin College. He has lived and worked in Copenhagen, Beijing, Kunming, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong. In 2015, he earned a PhD in music history from Yale University; his dissertation was on the theme of landscape in the works of Chinese composers, 1978–89. He has received a US Fulbright scholarship for his research. He currently lives with his wife, Scarlett, in Chongqing, China.
Luo Ai Mei is a Research Fellow at the Asia Culture Center in South Korea. She received her PhD in 2017 in ethnomusicology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on music and new ethnicities, music and interculturality, cultural...
