Category: Project 1: Introducing My Ethnomusicologist

By: Kaitlin Sepanek Yampolsky was born in NYC. He received his college education at Horace Mann School and graduated in 1942 with his undergrad from Columbia College. After school, he joined the service and was appointed position of lieutenant while fighting in the Battle of Iwo Jima. He also served under the Navy Joint Intelligence center and was awarded a Bronze

Made Mantle Hood, son of the famous Ki Mantle Hood, is an ethnomusicologist whose passion for this field has existed for as long as he can remember. Hood’s fascination for ethnomusicology stems from his early exposure to performing-arts graduate students from Ghana, Indonesia, Korea, and many other countries. Also playing an important role in his

Dr. Stephen Slawek is an ethnomusicologist whose main research focus is the musical traditions of South Asia. He received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania, a MM from Banaras Hindu University, a Master’s Degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and finally a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He currently

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

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