Notes on Contributing Authors

J Susan Baker is a senior research fellow with the University of Queensland, Australia. She is a social-developmental psychologist focusing on language and intergroup communication. Her publications are in the area of acculturation, second/heritage language learning, communication accommodation, intercultural relations, and doctor-patient communication.Polina Dessiatnitchenko is an Assistant Professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, where she is teaching ethnomusicology and musicology courses. She completed her PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto in 2017, where she was awarded the Garfield Weston Fellowship and Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Doctoral Graduate Scholarship for her doctoral research on Azerbaijani mugham. Polina has been working on her first monograph while holding a Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University's Department of Music from 2018 until 2021. In addition to her current teaching at Waseda University, she designed and taught her own courses at the University of Toronto and at Tufts University. Her research interests include Azerbaijani muğam, tar, creativity, phenomenology, affect theory, qəzəl poetry, əruz, Islamic aesthetics, Soviet and post-Soviet studies, and postcolonial studies. Polina is also a performer on the Azerbaijani tar.Byron Dueck is Professor of Music at the Open University (United Kingdom) and Chair of the Committee of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. He studies music and dance in central Cameroon and in North American Indigenous communities. He is the author of Musical Intimacies and Indigenous Imaginaries (Oxford University Press, 2013) and the co-editor, with Martin Clayton and Laura Leante, of Experience and Meaning in Musical Performance (Oxford University Press, 2013).Scheherazade Qassim Hassan is an Iraqi ethnomusicologist (PhD, University of Paris, René Descartes-Sorbonne), with a focus on music of Iraq and the Arab Middle East. She has conducted field work all over Iraq and founded the first Centre for Traditional Music in Baghdad. She also did field research in Syria and South Yemen, and contributed to many surveys in Bahrain, Qatar and the Emirates. She has taught at the University of Baghdad, the University of Paris X Nanterre, the University of St. Denis and as a visiting professor at the Senghor University in Alexandria and the University of Amman. She has been a fellow of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study (WIKO) and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), a research fellow at Columbia University in Amman and a research associate at the School of Oriental and African SOAS University of London, Department of Music. She chaired the ICTM study group of Music in the Arab World from 1990 to 2019. Currently, she is a research associate at (CREM) the Centre of Research in Ethnomusicology at the University of Nanterre. She has published books, articles and reviews in Arabic, French and English.Essele Essele Kisito is an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist who specializes in Fang, Beti and Bulu musics of Cameroun, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea. He is Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Management at the Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaoundé Catholic Institute (Cameroon); Research Fellow at the Museum national d'histoire naturelle (France); and a member of the Diversity and Cultural Evolution team in the Eco-Anthropology Laboratory at the Musée de l'homme (France).David R. Lewis is an assistant professor in the University Libraries at Bowling Green State University, where he serves at the sound archivist at the Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives. Prior to coming to BGSU, he was the curator of collections and digital media at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, Virginia/Tennessee from the museum's opening in 2014 until 2016. He received his PhD in ethnomusicology from Indiana University-Bloomington in 2016, where his dissertation focused on musical responses to HIV/AIDS in Trinidad and Tobago. He also earned an M.L.I.S. in archives and information science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017. His library and archival work has appeared in Archival Issues and Cataloging and Classification Quarterly. His current research projects include an examination of popular music responses to the opioid epidemic and a team-based project on teaching and learning with primary sources in undergraduate education.Peter D. MacIntyre is professor of psychology at Cape Breton University. His research focusses on the psychology of language and communication. He has published over 100 articles and chapters on language anxiety, willingness to communicate, motivation and other topics. He has co-authored or co-edited books on topics including Positive Psychology in SLA, Motivational Dynamics. Nonverbal Communication, Teaching Innovations, and Capitalizing on Language Learner Individuality. His awards include being recognized for teaching excellence (Atlantic Association of Universities), the Gardner Award (International Association for Language and Social Psychology) and the Mildenberger Prize (Modern Language Association) for contributions to the study of language.Maria Sonevytsky is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Berkeley and, for the 2021–22 academic year, she will be a Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology and Music at Bard College. Her first book, Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine, was published in the Music/Culture Series of Wesleyan University Press in 2019. She is currently working on a short book, Vopli Vidopliassova's Tantsi, for the 33 1/3 series, and is developing a longer-term digital archive and book project on Soviet children's music.Heather Sparling is the Canada Research Chair in Musical Traditions and Professor of Ethnomusicology at Cape Breton University. Her research interests include Gaelic song in Nova Scotia, vernacular dance in Cape Breton, and Atlantic Canadian disaster songs. Her research currently addresses language and music, particularly language revitalization through music, as well as memory and memorialization. She is also the editor of MUSICultures.Vivek Virani is Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Music Theory at the University of North Texas. His research explores connections between musical expression and spirituality, with a particular focus on mystical and devotional traditions of sung poetry in South Asia. His current book project, Songs of the Unknowable Country, discusses the role that songs of the fifteenth-century poet Kabir play in constructions of community, nation, and self in modern India. Vivek's other research projects include developing analytical paradigms for Hindustani classical composition and improvisation in the genres of tabla solo and dhrupad vocal performance. Vivek is also an active performer of South Asian devotional, classical, and folk music.

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