Notes on Contributing Authors

David Aarons is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he directs the UNCG Steelpan Ensemble and teaches such courses as American Music and Music of the Black Atlantic. He earned his PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Washington in 2017 and a Master of Music degree in steelpan performance from Northern Illinois University in 2012. He also holds a Bachelor of Music degree from The University of the West Indies, St Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago (2008). His major research project focuses on reggae music and Rastafari repatriation to Ethiopia.Sarah J. Bishop received her PhD in Musicology from Ohio State University. Her graduate research focused on music, ethnic politics, and violence in western Ethiopia. She also holds her MM in Music Therapy from Arizona State University and currently directs the activities program at a rehabilitation center in the United States. She is presently collaborating with psychology and music students in Ethiopia on integrating local music and spirituality practices with mental health services. Her research interests include music and violence, Christian music and movements across Africa, music and authoritarianism, and music and trauma.Philip V. Bohlman is the Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago, where he is also the Artistic Director of the cabaret ensemble, The New Budapest Orpheum Society. He also serves as Honorary Professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (Germany). His teaching and research range widely, and with ethnographic studies in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. Among his most recent publications are Song Loves the Masses (with J. G. Herder; University of California Press, 2017), Wie sängen wir Seinen Gesang auf dem Boden der Fremde! (LIT Verlag, 2019), and Wolokolamsker Chaussee (Bloomsbury, 2021). He is the recipient of the 2022 Balzan Prize in Ethnomusicology, which supports the five-year international project, “Borderlands in Sonic Encounter.” Phil Bohlman was SEM President from 2005 to 2007, and in 2022 he was elected an Honorary Member of the SEM.Uri Dorchin is a cultural anthropologist; his studies are focused on the socio-cultural aspects of popular culture and music, ethnicity, and racial thinking. He is the author of Real Time: Hip in Israel (Resling 2012) and editor of Blackness in Israel: Rethinking Racial Boundaries (Routledge 2020). A former visiting scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, UCLA, and University of Colorado Boulder, Dorchin is currently appointed as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Zefat Academic College in Israel.Miranda Crowdus is an assistant professor at the Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where she also directs the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies and holds the Research Chair in Canadian Jewish Studies. Crowdus's research interests lie at the intersection of ethnomusicology and Jewish Studies. She earned her doctorate at City University London in 2016 that focused on grassroots music-making initiatives in South Tel Aviv, Israel. Prior to her move to Canada, she spent five years in Hanover, Germany, as a research associate at the European Centre for Jewish Music. She is currently working on research on Jewish cultural heritage and cultural sustainability with Dr Sacha Kagan as an affiliate professor at the University of Hildesheim on the DFG-funded research project “Queering Jewish Cultural Heritage: Reparative Response and Creative Encounter.”Brian Deittrich (PhD, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. With a research focus on the Pacific Islands, Brian has undertaken collaborative research projects throughout the Federated States of Micronesia, among Micronesian migrant communities in Hawai‘i, and in New Zealand; his work on Indigenous music and dance has appeared widely in international publications. Brian has held numerous service and leadership roles, including within the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance.Esther Viola Kurtz received her PhD in Ethnomusicology from Brown University (2018) and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at Washington University in St. Louis. Bridging music, sound, dance, and Africana studies in her research, Esther explores Afro-Brazilian music-movement practices as sites where practitioners negotiate relations of race, gender, belonging, and power. Her current book project is an ethnographic study exploring the racial politics of a capoeira Angola group in Bahia, Brazil. The project examines the implications of white participation in a deeply spiritual and political Afro-Brazilian practice, thereby complicating notions of cross-racial affinity facilitated through participatory music-movement practices.

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