Divine Inspirations
Music and Islam in Indonesia
Edited by David Harnish and Anne Rasmussen
Author Information
David Harnish is Professor of Ethnomusicology at Bowling Green State University. He is author of Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth and Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival (2006) and has recorded and/or performed Indonesian, jazz, Indian and Tejano musics with five different labels.
Anne K. Rasmussen is Associate Professor at The College of William and Mary, where she also directs a Middle Eastern Music Ensemble. She is the author of Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia (2010), co-editor of Musics of Multicultural America (1997), a former Fulbright senior scholar, and Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Research Fellow
Contributors:
Judith Becker, Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan, is former director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and co-founder and first director of the Center for World Performance Studies at the University of Michigan. She is author of three books: Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion, and Trancing (2004; recipient of the Society for Ethnomusicology's Alan Merriam award), Gamelan Stories: Tantrism, Islam and Aesthetics in Central Java (1993), and Traditional Music in Modern Java (1980).
Birgit Berg completed her Ph.D. dissertation titled "The Music of Arabs, the Sound of Islam: Hadrami ethnic and religious presence in Indonesia" at Brown University in 2007. Upon completing her dissertation, Birgit was named a 2007 Presidential Management Fellow and began a two-year fellowship in Washington, D.C. with Voice of America broadcasting's East Asia division.
Charles Capwell retired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007 after thirty years on the faculty of the School of Music. He is a former editor of Ethnomusicology and has conducted fieldwork in India and Indonesia as a Fulbright Scholar.
Matthew Isaac Cohen is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London. His book, The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891-1903, co-published by Ohio University Press and KITLV Press, won the 2008 Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.
David Harnish (Ph.D. UCLA, M.A. U- Hawai'i) is Professor of Ethnomusicology, co-director of Balinese gamelan Kusuma Sari, and Associate Dean in the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is author of Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth, and Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival (University of Hawai'i, 2006).
Margaret Kartomi (AM FAHA Dr Phil) is Professor of Music and Coordinator of Research in the School of Music-Conservatorium, Monash University. She is the author of four books, including On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments (Chicago, 1990). Her next book, the first on the music cultures of Sumatra, is forthcoming with the University of Illinois Press.
Franki S. Notosudirdjo (a.k.a. Franki Raden) is an Indonesian composer-ethnomusicologist. From 2006-present, he teaches at the Visual and Performing Arts, Department of Humanities, University of Toronto, Canada. He is also a secretary of The Sacred Bridge Foundation.
Uwe U. Pätzold (b. 1959) currently teaches ethnomusicology at Robert Schumann University of Music, Duesseldorf, Germany. His publishing history includes Movement Forms and Music Styles of the Pencak Silat in West Java and West Sumatra (Holos-Verlag 2000).
Anne K. Rasmussen is Associate Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology at The College of William and Mary where she also directs the William and Mary Middle Eastern Music Ensemble. She is contributing co-editor of Musics of Multicultural America (Schirmer 1997). Rasmussen's book Women's Voices, the Recited Qur'ân, and Islamic Musical Arts in Indonesia is forthcoming with the University of California Press.
Sumarsam is an Adjunct Professor of Music at Wesleyan University, teaching performance, history, and theory of gamelan. His book Gamelan: Cultural Interaction and Musical Development in Central Java was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1995 (Pustaka Pelajar Press of Yogyakarta published its Indonesian version in 2003).
Wim van Zanten taught Anthropology of Music and Statistics and Data Theory for the Social Sciences at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University, the Netherlands from 1971 to 2007. He is preparing a second book on Tembang Sunda Cianjuran music and a book on the music of the Baduy minority group. van Zanten is also Vice-President of the International Council for Traditional Music.
Andrew N. Weintraub is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in ethnomusicology and popular music, and directs the University of Pittsburgh gamelan program. He is the author of Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java (Ohio University Press, 2004), and co-editor of Music and Cultural Rights (University of Illinois Press, 2009). He is currently completing a book titled Dangdut Stories: A Social and Musical History of Indonesia's most Popular Music (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
