Outside Academia
This ethnomusicologist combined ethnography with digital technologies, and now works as a data strategist for the department of cultural affairs in Los Angeles, CA.
Who is W. F. Umi Hsu?
This ethnomusicologist is an Associate Professor at Mount Holyoke College and The Five Colleges, but he also teaches at Amherst, Hampshire, and Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a scholar working on "Yoruba music traditions and practices in West Africa and their influences and re- interpretations in the black diaspora, mainly, Brazil, Cuba, and the United States."
Who is Olabode (Bode) Omojola?
This ethnomusicologist was a former professor at CUNY Graduate Center and current Emeritus faculty there, and his research focuses on Iranian music, Ethnomusicology in music theory, and the field of ethnomusicology itself.
Who is Stephen Blum?
This ethnomusicologist is an Assistant Professor at the Asian Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, runs a gamelan ensemble, and has publications on topics as diverse ranging from Javanese puppet theater in cyberspace to Czech Poetry!
Who is Jan Mrázek?
This ethnomusicologist became the Associate Director for the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, an excellent resource for listening to some recordings from a number of different music cultures.
Who is Daniel Atesh Sonneborn?
This ethnomusicologist had a binational childhood and a love for shakuhachi that led her to ethnomusicology, where she has researched music and dance, Japanese music, and "cyborgy-things" which combine dancing with making music through technology, among others. Worked at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She was also president of SEM in 2023.
Who is Tomie Hahn?
This ethnomusicologist from Worchester, PA is an expert in Indian Classical music idioms, taught at the University of Texas at Austin, and studied sitar under Ravi Shankar.
Who is Stephen Slawek?
This Iranian-English ethnomusicologist works at the London University and focuses on Iranian classical music, the Iranian diaspora, and Iranian cyperspace communities
Who is Laudan Nooshin?
This former curator for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and native of Wisconsin focused her life's work on material cultures related to the Pacific Islands and their many different music cultures.
Who is Adrienne Kaeppler?
This ethnomusicologist, born in 1957 and currently a professor at the University of British Columbia, is a scholar of Balinese gamelan, wrote the book "Balinese Gamelan Music"
Who is Michael Tenzer?
This ethnomusicologist was a scholar of Javanese gamelan, and one of the few at the time who both completed her graduate training at University of Michigan and was hired there.
Who is Judith Becker?
This former head of the University of Hawai'i's Center for Chinese Studies is not only an excellent resource to learn about Chinese Vocal music and how Western composers depict East Asian music cultures, he is also an excellent flutist.
Who is Frederick C. Lau?
This ethnomusicologist was a freelance composer and director of the Composers' gamelan in New York City
Who is Barbara Benary?
This ethnomusicologist and associate professor at Northwestern University is a great resource for learning about Azerbaijani music, Russian opera, and even music for weddings in different diasporic communities around the U.S.
Who is Inna Naroditskaya?
This ethnomusicologist taught at the University of Michigan for years and their work can be a great resource for people interested in Japanese music and theater. This person also bought a gamelan but refused to teach it after a few years.
Who is William P. Malm?
This ethnomusicologist's academic interests ranged from Indian thumri, Indo-Caribbean music, Cuban music, to Flamenco. He works at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Who is Peter Manuel?
This archivist for the University of Washington's Ethnomusicology Archives has a special interest in Indigenous musicking in Washington State.
Who is Laurel Sercombe?
This ethnomusicologist was Associate Director for the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities at Indiana University and a scholar of dance and worship, with most of her research taking place in Malawi.
Who is Clara Henderson?
This Swiss-born ethnomusicologist, cellist, and sarangi player taught at the University of Alberta and is an authority on Indian classical music.
Who is Regula Burckhardt Qureshi?
This ethnomusicologist both works in the Universiti Sains Malaysia, but also helps run Young Theatre Penang and worked with children’s-theater activist Janet Pillai to create cross-cultural music and theater programming for children in the surrounding community
Who is Tan Sooi Beng?