ANDREW ALTER is a senior lecturer in contemporary music studies at Macquarie University. He teaches and undertakes research in a diverse range of sub-disciplines including popular music studies, ethnomusicology, composition, and music theory. His primary research is focused on traditional and popular music in India and Indonesia as well as world music practice in Australia.  Currently he leads the Macquarie University gamelan ensemble (Gema Nada).

DANIEL AVORGBEDOR received his PhD in Ethnomusicology and Folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington in 1986 and is currently on post-retirement teaching and research contract at the University of Ghana, Legon. He has published numerous essays in journals and encyclopedias and serves on the editorial boards of many journals. Major awards include those from the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities.

CHRISTA ANNE BENTLEY is an assistant professor of musicology at Oklahoma City University. She received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2016. She is writing a book on the politics of the 1970s singer-songwriter movement in the United States.

CAROLINE BITHELL is professor of ethnomusicology and head of music at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of two monographs, Transported by Song: Corsican Voices from Oral Tradition to World Stage (Scarecrow Press, 2007) and A Different Voice, A Different Song: Reclaiming Community through the Natural Voice and World Song (OUP, 2014), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Music Revival (2014). Her current research focuses on polyphonic singing, the politics of heritage and cultural tourism in Georgia (Caucasus), alongside ongoing work on the voice, community choirs, and singing and activism.

BEAU BOTHWELL (PhD Columbia 2013) is an assistant professor of music at Kalamazoo College, co-chair of the Society for Arabic Music Research, and President of the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music. He recently co-translated Ali Kisserwan’s Meeting of the Great Pyramids: The Compositions of Mohammad ͑Abdel Wahab for Umm Kulthum (2018).

KATHERINE BRUCHER is an associate professor of music at the DePaul University School of Music in Chicago, Illinois. Recent publications include Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies and Local Music (2013) and the Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking (2017), both edited with Suzel Ana Reily.

FREDELIZA Z. CAMPOS is a Filipino ethnomusicologist and a field archaeologist. She is currently competing her PhD thesis centred on musical instruments and Philippine cultural festivals at the Australian National University. Her research interests also include the investigation of prehistoric music and ancient aquatic lifeways in Southeast Asia.

RAQUEL CAMPOS is a PhD candidate at the London South Bank University, where she researches audiences’ practices of music circulation on social media and streaming platforms. She currently serves as Assistant Editor at the journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. She holds a MMus in Ethnomusicology (2013) from SOAS, University of London.

TIMMY CHIH-TING CHEN is a research assistant professor at the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. He received his PhD from the University of Hong Kong with the dissertation “In the Mood for Music: Sonic Extraterritoriality and Musical Exchange in Hong Kong Cinema” (2016). Chen has published his writings in A Companion to Wong Kar-wai (Wiley Blackwell), Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Surveillance in Asian Cinema (Routledge), The Assassin (HKU Press), and Frames Cinema Journal.

LEONARDO D’AMICO (PhD) is an adjunct associate professor of ethnomusicology at Yunnan University, Kunming (China). His fields of research are Afro-Colombian music, Sub-Saharan Africa music and Visual Ethnomusicology. He has taught ethnomusicology at the University of Siena, University of Ferrara, Conservatory of Brescia and Mantua (Italy). He was chair of the Italian Committee of ICTM from 2002 to 2012, and is the co-founder and chair of the ICTM study group on Audiovisual Ethnomusicology.

ADRIANA MARTÍNEZ FALCÓN is a Mexican ethnomusicologist whose research interest span music and dance, music semiology, and tradition studies of the Chinese diaspora in Latin America. She has conducted field research in Mexico City and Hong Kong. She is an independent researcher trained at The National Autonomous University of Mexico, El Colegio de Mexico, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research on Chinese Lion Dance has been presented at conferences in Latin America, Europe and Asia.

KATERINA GARCÍA is an assistant professor in Hispanic studies at Trinity College, Dublin. Her main research interests and current areas of publication are: Judeo-Spanish and Hispanic linguistics; the historical and socio-cultural contexts of Judeo-Spanish language use and Judeo-Spanish literary creation; contemporary interpretations of Judeo-Spanish secular song. She is also a professional singer, and her repertoire includes songs from the traditions of the Judeo-Spanish diaspora, Spain, Central Europe and Ireland.

KIRSTY GILLESPIE is senior curator anthropology at the Queensland Museum and James Cook University, Australia, and the current audio-reviews editor for the Yearbook for Traditional Music. She has conducted research into the performance traditions of Papua New Guinea since 2003; her latest book is entitled Pil: Ancestral Stories of the Lihir Islands (Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 2018).

KARL HAAS has been conducting participant-observation research with Dagbamba warrior-musicians in Tamale, Ghana since 2006. His research examines the ways that masculine identities and temporal modalities are negotiated through performances of traditional. He is currently a visiting assistant professor of music at Middlebury College.

HELEN HAHMANN is an ethnomusicologist and radiomaker from Halle (Saale), Germany. She received a PhD for her research project Wir singen nicht, wir sind die Jodler (Waxmann, 2018) on yodeling in the Harz Mountains in Germany from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. She co-edited the book Radio Revolten. 30 Days of Radioart (Spector Books, 2019).

SOO-HYE HAN (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is an associate professor of Communication Studies at Kansas State University. She is the coauthor of the book Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t: How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It) and has published her work in a number of journals including Argumentation and Advocacy, Social Media and Society, Communication Research Reports, and the Journal of Public Deliberation.

KLISALA HARRISON is the Academy of Finland Research Scholar in Ethnomusicology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Dr. Harrison has extensive research experience on Indigenous musics of Canada, Greenland and the Nordic countries as well as on topics of music, health and well-being; music and human rights; music and urban poverty; applied ethnomusicology theory and method; sustainability; and musics of asylum seekers and refugees.

PETE HOESING is a director of Sponsored Programs and Arts and Sciences faculty affiliate at Dakota State University. He earned a PhD from Florida State University in 2011. He has published in African Music, History in Africa and Nova Religio. His forthcoming book with the University of Illinois Press is entitled Kusamira Ritual Music and Wellbeing in Uganda.

KEITH HOWARD is Professor Emeritus at SOAS, University of London. In addition to professor and Head of Music at SOAS, he has been Associate Dean at the University of Sydney and has held visiting professorships and fellowships in North America, East Asia, and Australia. He has written or edited 22 books and 200 book chapters and articles.

MAHO A. ISHIGURO holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University and M.A. in musicology from University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is currently a lecturer of music at Yale University and director of gamelan ensemble at Smith College. Her research focuses on Islam and women’s performing arts in Indonesia.

STEVEN KAPLAN is the Gail Levin de Nur Professor (Emeritus) of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has written extensively on the religious and social history of Ethiopia, particularly about the Beta Israel (Falasha) and Ethiopian Orthodox Tawahedo Church.

RICARDA KOPAL received her PhD in musicology (ethnomusicology) from Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany, in 2014. She has lectured at different German universities, was as a curator responsible for the ethnomusicological collections at Ethnologisches Museum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin from 2013–2019, and currently is a freelance researcher and writer. Her research focuses on an ethnomusicological engagement with western European art music, the history of ethnomusicology, and dance studies.

MICHAEL B. MACDONALD is a cinemusicologist and associate professor of music at the MacEwan University Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. His research areas include screen production research, ethnographic film theory, cine-ethnomusicology, and audiovisual ethnomusicology. Michael is the founding programme chair of the MusCan Film Series held annually at the Canadian University Music Society conference and serves on the editorial board of the journal Intersections.

RUTHIE MEADOWS is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Meadows’ research focuses on poetics and aurality in the Hispanophone- and circum-Caribbean, including Cuba, the Dominican Republic and New Orleans. Currently, Meadows is completing a book on gender, belief, and state religious policy in the Yorubizing, “African Traditionalist” movement of Regla de Ocha (Santería) and Ifá in Cuba.

GUILNARD MOUFARREJ is an assistant professor in the Languages and Cultures Department at the United States Naval Academy. Her research interests include the music and liturgy in the Maronite Church in Lebanon and the diaspora, the role of music in foreign language acquisition, music and social protest in the Arab world, and music intervention among war-traumatised children.

MIRIAM ROVSING OLSEN is an emeritus associate professor of ethnomusicology at the Université Paris-Nanterre and a member of the university’s Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (Crem-Lesc). Her publications based on her fieldwork in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco include articles on music, poetry, and dance; she is the author of the book Chants et danses de l’Atlas (Maroc).

MICHAEL O’TOOLE received his PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at Freie Universität. He is currently an assistant director of University of Chicago’s GRADTalk program, which trains graduate students in public speaking and research communication. His research focuses on issues of ethnicity, politics, and transnationalism in the music of Middle Eastern diasporas in Germany.

ANNA PAPAETI holds a PhD in musicology from King’s College London. She writes about music in detention and the ramifications of music and repression. Her research has been supported by DAAD, European Committee (FP7, Horizon 2020), Research Centre for the Humanities (Athens), and Onassis Foundation. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at Panteion University, Athens, researching the use of music in detention during the (post) civil-war period in Greece (1947–1957).

ECKEHARD PISTRICK is a substitute associate professor at the Institute for European Ethnomusicology at the University of Cologne. He holds a PhD from the Université Paris-Nanterre and the University of Halle-Wittenberg where he was lecturer in ethnomusicology 2009-2017. He has conducted extensive field research in Albania and the Balkans since 2014 and is the author of Performing Nostalgia: Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania (Ashgate, 2015).

LIZ PRZYBYLSKI is an assistant professor of music at the University of California, Riverside. She is a hip hop scholar whose work engages with the creation and circulation of urban Indigenous music. Recent publications include “Hip Hop Dialogues: Sampling Women’s Hand Drum Songs and the Canadian Popular Mainstream” in Popular Music and the Politics of Hope: Queer and Feminist Interventions (Routledge, 2019).

BRENDA M. ROMERO holds a PhD in music (ethnomusicology) from the University of California, Los Angeles (1993) and is currently a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is co-editor of Dancing across Borders: Danzas y bailes mexicanos (University of Illinois Press, 2009) and author of a monograph, Matachines Transfronterizos: Warriors for Peace at the Borderlands (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming).

ANDREA SHAHEEN ESPINOSA is an associate professor of ethnomusicology and oboe at the University of Texas, El Paso, where she also directs the binational Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, Layali Al-Sham. She is a Medici Scholar and a Fulbright Fellow, and her research interests include Middle Eastern Folk Music, Migration and Nostalgia, and Music and Trauma on the US-Mexico border.

TES SLOMINSKI’s primary research focuses on gender, sexuality, and race/ethnicity in Irish traditional music. Her book, Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music, is under review at Wesleyan University Press.

ANDREW SNYDER completed his PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Berkeley in 2018 with a dissertation on brass bands and carnival in contemporary Rio de Janeiro. He is turning that project into a monograph with Wesleyan University Press and is the coeditor of HONK: A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism (Routledge, forthcoming). Here he focuses on the American contra dance tradition in which he was raised.

SALLY TRELOYN is an associate professor in ethnomusicology and co-director of the Research Unit for Indigenous Arts and Cultures at the University of Melbourne. Treloyn has conducted research on the public dance-song genres of northwest Australia since 1999 and specialises in applied ethnomusicology, music sustainability, databases and repatriation.

MARÍA MERCEDES VÁZQUEZ VÁZQUEZ (PhD) is a lecturer and honorary assistant professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong. Her special areas of teaching and research include Spanish and Portuguese-language cinemas and cultures from Latin America, with a focus on Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, Cuba and Argentina. Dr. Vázquez is the author of The Question of Class in Contemporary Latin American Cinema and the “Latin American Cinema” bibliography of Oxford Bibliographies Online.

TOM WESTERN is a Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo, and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. He is an ethnomusicologist researching the relations between sound, borders, displacements and citizenships. His first monograph is National Phonography: Field Recording, Sound Archiving, and Producing the Nation in Music (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).

ANNA YATES-LU completed her PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), writing a thesis on the Korean singing-storytelling tradition p’ansori titled “P’ansori Today: Reconciling Tradition and Creativity in Modern Society.” Her current research examines the use of social networking services for promoting traditional music in Korea and China, and intercultural performance in the European p’ansori scene. She is also active as a p’ansori teacher and performer.

IVANNA YI is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Colorado Boulder. She received her PhD in Korean literature from Harvard University, focusing on the interaction of orality, literacy, and the environment in Korean oral performance traditions. She serves on the editorial board of Sijo: An International Journal of Poetry and Song.

BELL YUNG, an ethnomusicologist specialising on China, an emeritus professor of music at the University of Pittsburgh, and an affiliate professor of music at the University of Washington. He has published ten books and over 100 journal articles, book chapters and reviews, in English and in Chinese. His latest, “A Heuristic Theory of Metrical Transformation and Tune Metamorphosis: Tracking Creativity in Traditional Cantonese Opera,” will appear in Ethnomusicology.