About the Contributors
- About the Contributors
Lisa Burnett holds a master's degree in Musicology from Boston University and a law degree from Harvard. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Musicology at Stanford University, where her research focuses on the semiotics of large-scale musical stage works.
Jeffrey W. Cupchik has studied Tibetan Buddhism for over 20 years. He holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology and Musicology from York University. He is currently a medical ethnomusicologist conducting research at the Center for Ethics, Humanities, and Palliative Care at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He was recently Visiting Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Eastman School of Music (2010-2011). Cupchik is cochair of the Medical Ethnomusicology Special Interest Group of the Society for Ethnomusicology (2010-). His gCod research has received several awards and fellowships, including a Shastri Indo-Canadian Research Fellowship (2007), a Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Research Fellowship (2004-2005), as well as a Commonwealth Scholarship (1998) and Trudeau Fellowship (2006).
Theodore S. Gonzalves is an Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His works include Stage Presence: Conversations with Filipino American Performing Artists (2007); The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora (2009); Carlos Villa and the Integrity of Spaces (2011); and, with Roderick N. Labrador, Filipinos in Hawai'i (2011).
Stéphanie Khoury is a PhD candidate at the Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie, a CNRS department located in the Université de Paris Ouest, Nanterre, in France. Her current research focuses on the pinpeat music and its role in performing arts through the all-male masked drama called lkhon khol, with an emphasis on the ritual aspects of the performance in a Cambodian rural context. Her research interests also include the use of music in religious expressions, in the building of cultural identity, as well as in the Cambodian 1960s pop music movement. Previously Khoury taught at Emmanuel College (Boston) and Boston College. [End Page 159]
Terence Lancashire obtained MAs in Ethnomusicology and Japanese Studies, respectively, from Queen's University, Belfast, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and a PhD from Osaka University. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Human and Social Sciences, Osaka Ohtani University, where he teaches Cross-cultural Studies and Japanese Studies. Lancashire has written various publications on Japanese performing arts including Gods' Music, The Japanese Folk Theatre of Iwami Kagura, Studien zur traditionellen Music Japans Band 12 (2006) and An Introduction to Japanese Folk Performing Arts (2011).
John Napier trained as a classical cellist and singer, winning the Queensland Conservatorium of Music's award for excellence in 1983. Moving away from western classical performance, and after developing a colorful career as a performer of new and intercultural music, he eventually undertook postgraduate studies at the University of New South Wales. Napier received a doctorate for his study of accompaniment in North Indian classical music. He is Senior Lecturer in Musicology at the University of New South Wales, pursuing research on the music of Rājasthan and Coorg in India and on Asian music in Australia.
Raul C. Navarro is Graduate Programs Coordinator for the College of Music, University of the Philippines-Diliman, where he received a PhD in Philippine Studies in 2004. In 2008, he won the Philippine National Book Award and the University of the Philippines Award for the Outstanding Publication in Filipino for his book Kolonyal na Patakaran at ang Nagbabagong Kamalayang Filipino: Musika sa Publikong Paaralan sa Pilipinas, 1898-1935 (Colonial policies and the changing Filipino consciousness: Music in the Philippine public schools, 1898-1935) (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2007). His current research is on music and politics during Martial Law.
Rachel Tollett is currently completing her dissertation at Northwestern University on late-period Soviet musical stereotypes of Americans. In addition to her research on late Soviet screen culture, she completed field work in Moscow with Chechen pop singer Liza Umarova and continues to pursue research on music and conflict in conjunction with the Russo-Chechen wars, supported by the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies. She has lectured at Northwestern University, Baylor University, and...
