Our Faculty

Shannon Dudley (Room 28E, Music Building)

(206) 543-6308

dudley@u.washington.edu

Associate Professor of Music (B.A., Biology, Oberlin College; M.A., Music, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Music, University of California, Berkeley)

Areas of specialization: Caribbean, Latin America, West Africa; Nationalism, Ethnicity, Performance

Author of:

• Music from Behind the Bridge: Steelband Spirit and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• Making Music for the Nation: Competing Esthetics and Identities in Trinidad and Tobago's Panorama Steelband Competition (Dissertation: University of California, Berkeley, 1997)
  
• "Judging by the Beat: Calypso vs. Soca" in Ethnomusicology, 40(2)
  
• "Pan Franciso", a documentary video on "Our Boys" steelband from Tobago.

Ter Ellingson (Room 28D, Music Building)

(206) 543-7211

ellingsn@u.washington.edu

Professor of Music; Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Comparative Religion, and South Asian Studies (M.A., Religion, University of Chicago;

Ph.D., Anthropology/Buddhist Studies, University of Wisconsin)

Areas of specialization: Tibet, Nepal, Buddhist Cultures; Ritual, Symbolism, History, Notation/Transcription, Visual Media.

Author of:

• The Myth of the Noble Savage(University of California Press, 2001) Link to UC Press Publication Announcement
• The Mandala of Sound: Sound and Concept in Tibetan Ritual Music (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
  
• The Discovery of Music: Transcription and the Search for Ethnomusicological Paradigms (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)
  
• "The Techniques of Chordal Singing in the Tibetan Style" in American Anthropologist 72(4):826-831.
  
• "Ancient Indian Drum Syllables and Bu Ston's Shampata Ritual" in Ethnomusicology 24(3):431-452.
  
• "The Mathematics of Tibetan Rol Mo" in Ethnomusicology 23(2):225-243.
  
• Theoretical and methodological chapters in standard reference works (Grove Handbook of Ethnomusicology, Encyclopedia of Religion), and articles on Tibetan, Newar, and other Asian musics, religions, and cultures.
  
  
  
  
  

  

  Christina Sunardi (Room 335, Music Building)
  (206) 543-0266
  csunardi@u.washington.edu
  Assistant Professor of Music (M.A., Music, University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Music, University of California, Berkeley)
  
  Areas of specialization: performing arts of Java and Bali, gender, and music in the United States.
  
  
  Performer of Indonesian music and dance in Java since 1997 and in the California Bay Area with Gamelan Sari Raras and Gamelan Sekar Jaya (2000-2007)
  
  
  Currently performing with Seattle's Gamelan Pacifica.
  
  
  Author of:
  • "Complicating Senses of Masculinity, Femininity, and Islam Through the Performing Arts in Malang, East Java." In Performance, Popular Culture, and Piety (2013), edited by Timothy Daniels, 135-160. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Review of The Makings of Indonesian Islam: Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi Past (2011) by Michael Laffan. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 30(1) (2013):109-112.
  • Review of Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia (2010) by Anne Rasmussen. Indonesia 92 (October 2011):191-93.
  • Review of Islamic Spectrum in Java (2009) by Timothy Daniels. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 28/2 (2011):120-122.
  • Review of Erotic Triangles: Sundanese Dance and Masculinity in West Java (2010) by Henry Spiller. Indonesia 91 (April 2011): 207-210.
  • "Negotiating Authority and Articulating Gender: Performer Interaction in Malang, East Java," Ethnomusicology 55(1)(2011):31-54.
  • "Making Sense and Senses of Locale Through Perceptions of Music and Dance in Malang, East Java," Asian Music 41(1)(2010):89-126.
  • "Errata, Asian Music 41(1)," Asian Music 41(2)(2010):227-232.
  • "Pushing at the Boundaries of the Body: Cultural Politics and Cross-gender Dance in East Java," Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 165/4 (2009):459-492.
  • Review of Power Plays: Wayang Golek Theater of West Java (2004) by Andrew Weintraub. Journal of Folklore Research Reviews, posted 7/2008. Link to Review
  • Gendered Dance Modes in Malang, East Java: Music, Movement and the Production of Local Senses of Identity (Dissertation: University of California, Berkeley, 2007)
    

Recorded Performance:

• Lou Harrison: Scenes from Cavafy. Performed by Gamelan Pacifica, directed by Jarrad Powell. New World Records 80710-2 (2010). Compact disc.