Julie Strand was born in 1972. She received her BA in Clarinet Performance from the University of Michigan and her PhD in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University. Her focus is primarily set on West African percussion music, including the Sambla xylophone music from Burkina Faso and the drumming of Ghana Mali. She has taught at Northeastern
Ruby Ornstein is an ethnomusicologist who specializes in Balinese gamelan music. She went to graduate school at the University of California. Ornstein’s research focuses on the North Balinese Kebyar musician murdered during the 1965 unsuccessful coup in Indonesia. She was the first woman ethnomusicologist to study in Bali (Sarkissian and Solis 432). Nevertheless, despite her
Laudan Nooshin Ethnomusicologist; Music Scholar Professor in the Department of Music at City University of London Laudan Nooshin is an ethnomusicologist whose main focus is researching broad fields of ethnomusicology, popular music studies, and film music studies with a focus on music in Iran and the Middle East. However, she believes that calling herself an
Barbara Benary was born on April 7th, 1946 in Bay Shore, Long Island. She began playing the violin at age six and went on to receive a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. Benary continued her education at Wesleyan University where she received her M.A. and Ph.D. while specializing in the music
Professor of Music, Wesleyan University by Dr. Maho Ishiguro Sumarsam is from East Java, Indonesia. He is an ethnomusicologist whose research focuses on Central Javanese gamelan, music practice from his nation, Indonesia. He trained as a gamelan musician from young age, and attended ASKI, the national conservatory of Indonesian performing arts in Surakarta in the
