About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Victoria M. Dalzell is an ethnomusicologist whose work focuses on ethnicity, ritual, and belonging in Nepal. Her research in Nepal's Tharu communities has appeared in the journals Studies in Nepali History and Society, Anthropology and Humanism, and Asian Music. Her current research examines the congregational song practices of Christian Nepalis. Her work has been supported by a Fulbright IIE Grant and a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society. She received her PhD from the University of California, Riverside.
Bruno Deschênes is a composer, ethnomusicologist, world music journalist, and shakuhachi performer. His main field of research as an independent scholar is the aesthetics of Japanese traditional music. He is also interested in the study of transmusicality, through which musicians like himself learn the music of a culture of which they are not native, including the teaching of it.
Polina Dessiatnitchenko currently holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University's Department of Music. She completed a direct-entry PhD in Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto, where she was awarded the Garfield Weston Fellowship and the Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Doctoral Graduate Scholarship for her doctoral research on Azerbaijani mugham. Polina designed and taught her own courses at the University of Toronto and at Tufts University. Her research interests include Azerbaijani mugham, tar, creativity, phenomenology, affect theory, ghazal poetry, aruz, Islamic aesthetics, Soviet and post-Soviet studies, and postcolonial studies. Polina is also a performer of the Azerbaijani tar.
Heather MacLachlan received her PhD from Cornell University in 2009. She is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Dayton and the author of scholarly articles on a variety of music-related topics. She has also written two monographs, including Burma's Pop Music Industry: Creators, Distributors, Censors (University of Rochester Press, 2011).
Tom Peterson is a current PhD student at SOAS, University of London. His doctoral research considers the role of British colonialism in changing attitudes toward music and singing in Sri Lanka, taking the Hugh Nevill collection of manuscripts at the British Library as its primary source material. In 2019, he was awarded both a CHASE scholarship from UKRI to undertake his PhD and a Gerry Farrell Travelling Scholarship from SEMPRE to conduct fieldwork. A result of this work was his article "Sonic Benefit: Buddhist Ontologies of Chant and the Supramundane in Bengaluru," published in Asian Music.
Marty Regan has composed over 90 works for traditional Japanese instruments that have been performed in numerous venues throughout the world. Widely regarded as the authoritative source on the subject, his translation of Minoru Miki's Composing for Japanese Instruments was published by the University of Rochester Press in 2008. His chamber opera The Memory Stone was commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera as part of the HGOco's Songs of Houston: East+West initiative and was premiered in 2013 at the Asia Society Texas Center. He is an Associate Professor of Music at Texas A&M University. You can find him on the web at martyregan.com.
Mingyeong Son received her PhD in Musicology from Seoul National University (SNU) in 2021. She wrote her dissertation on twenty-first-century Western contemporary music using Korean musical elements with a focus on compositional aspects and musical aesthetics in the global era. She holds an MA in Musicology from Northwestern University and a bachelor's degree from SNU. As the recipient of the 2019 Global PhD Fellowship granted by the National Research Foundation of Korea, she continues her research with an interest in cultural hybridity and contemporary music in Korea.
Philip Yampolsky has been studying the music of Indonesia and its neighbors since 1970. He recorded and edited the 20-volume Music of Indonesia CD series (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1991–99) and wrote the annotations for most of them. His research focus since 2011 has been singing in rural Timor (both the Indonesian half and the independent Republic of Timor-Leste). Another long-standing line of his research is music in commercial media in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
