Introducing the New Team

Greetings All! My name is Rose Boomsma and I am excited to be taking on the role of Editor-in-Chief for Ethnomusicology Review. Having been involved in various ways with the journal for the past two years has taught me the importance of having a dedicated team of editors, eager to serve and create. This year we have quite a few new staff members who will be taking charge of different aspects of the Sounding Board and our Journal Volume. I will introduce both them and our continuing staff below.

As we continue developing our growing Sounding Board, we also look forward to publishing our 20^th Journal Volume! The submission deadline for the journal is March 10^th and we accept posts for the Sounding Board on a rolling basis. Submission guidelines can be found to the right of this page.

Mike D'Errico is our Technical Editor. He is a PhD candidate in the UCLA Department of Musicology and the Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate Program. His research interests and performance activities include software and interface design for digital audio production, hip-hop and electronic dance music, and sound studies. His writings appear in the Journal on the Art of Record Production, Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal, Oxford Handbooks Online, and the Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop. Check out his website at derricomusic.com.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Schuyler Whelden is Managing Editor for the Sounding Board and a graduate student in the UCLA Department of Musicology. His research focuses on issues of genre and race in Brazilian popular music. Current projects include investigating the influence of European modernist intellectuals on racialized conceptions of genre in the 1920s and 30s and analysis of 1970s musical recordings as a lens into the repressive military dictatorship of the time.
 

John Widman is Managing Editor for the Journal Volume and a second year graduate student in UCLA’s Ethnomusicology Department where he specializes in researching the music of China’s Zhuang minority. In addition to Chinese music, John has interests in global expressions of various genres of rap and hardcore. He is further involved in researching sound studies and music listening preferences in extreme environments derived from his experiences as a wildland firefighter.

Mehrenegar Rostami is the current Reviews Editor. A native of Tehran, she is at present a PhD student at UCLA with an in terest in the music of Silk Road cultures. After completing her B.A. in the Field of Music at Azad University of Tehran, where she studied the Persian traditional music repertoire, she continued her studies in Musicology and Dance at University of Salzburg. She received her M.A. in ethnomusicology from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her further research interests include intercultural musical encounters, improvisation, Middle-Eastern music, capitalism & globalization, politics, and philosophy.

Associate Editors

Ben Cosgrove manages the Ecomusicology section of the Sounding Board. He is a multi-instrumentalist and touring composer/performer whose work focuses on the human experience of landscape. He grew up in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and he graduated from Harvard College in 2010. More about him can be found at www.bencosgrove.com.

Dean Reynolds is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, where he is currently writing his dissertation on jazz musicians and listeners and their uses of recording technologies and new media. Dean has taught undergraduate music courses at City College, the New School, Princeton, and elsewhere, and he is a double bassist. He manages the Space is the Place section of the Sounding Board.

Rosaleen Rhee is a PhD student in the Musicology and the Urban Humanities Institute at UCLA. Her research involves analyzing how an AIDS victim is represented in one Korean popular music video. In addition to multimedia interpretation, Rosaleen is also interested in urbanism, critical race theory, and the sustainability of performing arts venues and civic institutions. She manages the new Crossing Borders section of the Sounding Board.

Otto Stuparitz is a Chicago native and received his BA in music history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he researched aesthetics and distribution networks within the local recording studio scene. His current graduate work at UCLA focuses on ways in which technology, law, and distribution networks affect traditional and popular musics of Indonesia. He manages the Bring the Noise section of the Sounding Board.

Kristina Nielsen completed her B.M. in piano performance at Western Washington University and studied for an additional year at the Native American Language and Cultures program at Copenhagen University. She is currently a doctoral student at UCLA with an interest in pre-Columbian instruments and modern reinterpretations of pre-Columbian music. She founded and now manages the Historical Perspectives section of the Sounding Board.

Thank you to all the past editors, especially Alex Rodriguez, the outgoing Editor-in Chief. We hope to continue to bring you interesting posts on current issues in the field of ethnomusicology and look forward to producing a unique 20^th journal volume this coming fall.