Michael Tenzer is Professor of Music at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of two previous books, Balinese Music (Periplus, 1991 [1998, 2nd. Ed.]) and Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth Century Balinese Music (Chicago 2000) which received the 34th ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and the Society for Ethnomusicology's Merriam Prize. He edited this book's predecessor, Analytical Studies in World Music (Oxford 2006). The first western composer to create new music for Balinese groups in Bali, his compositions in diverse genres have been commissioned, performed and acclaimed internationally. In 2009 New World Records released a CD of his music, Let Others Name You.
John Roeder, a Professor at the University of British Columbia, is a music theorist who specializes in explaining music outside the traditional Western canon, especially contemporary art music and world music. He focuses on basic processes of pitch and rhythm, but he has also developed mathematical and computational models of music, and has directed research into the preservation of the digital records of art, government, and science.

Simha Arom - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris).

Lou Bunk - Franklin Pierce University

Linda Barwick - University of Sydney.

Nathan Hesselink - University of British Columbia.

Elizabeth Eva Leach - University of Oxford

Victoria Lindsay Levine - Colorado College

Denis-Constant Martin - University of Bordeaux

Bruno Nettl - University of Illinois

Terauchi Naoko - Kobe University, Japan

Fabio Oliveira Federal University of Goiás, Brazil

John Roeder - University of British Columbia

Jason Stanyek

Michael Tenzer - University of British Columbia

Richard Widdess - School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

Evan Ziporyn - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"[An] interesting sampler of the world's music and practitioners...Recommended." --CHOICE