ISSN 2158-5296
 
 
AAWM JOURNAL VOL. 2 NO. 1 (2012)
 
Contributors

Steven Brown is the director of the NeuroArts Lab in the McMaster University Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour. The lab is devoted to developing a holistic understanding of the neural, cognitive and evolutionary foundations of the arts.

Henry Burnett is on the ethnomusicology faculty of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Professor of Music at Queens College, CUNY, where he is also Associate Director. He is also co-author with Roy Nitzberg of Composition, Chromaticism, and the Developmental Process: A New Theory of Tonality (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2007).

David Loeb studied composition with Peter Stearns at the Mannes College and has taught there since 1964. He studied traditional Japanese music with Shinichi Yuize with who has performed several of Loeb's works and recorded two of them. His "Analytic Aspects of Japanese Koto Music" was published by Columbia University Press in The Music Forum Volume 4 in 1976.

Emily Merritt is a Music Cognition major at McMaster University. She is scheduled to graduate in 2012.

Stefan Pohlit graduated from Karlsruhe University of Music (Composition and Theory) and received a Ph.D. from the Istanbul Technical University where he will join the faculty of the State Conservatory of Turkish Music in 2012. His works have been commissioned and performed in many European countries. As an ethnomusicologist, he specializes in intercultural approaches to Middle-Eastern traditions.

David Racanelli Dowling College. In 2010, he earned his Ph. D. in Ethnomusicology from the CUNY Graduate Center, writing his doctoral dissertation on the repertoire and performance practice of Mande griots in New York.

Tom Rzeszutek graduated with an M.Sc. in Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour from McMaster University in 2011.

Patrick Savage graduated with an M.Sc. in Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour from McMaster University in 2011. He is currently a graduate student in the Musicology Department of the Tokyo University of the Arts.

Chloe Zadeh is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, where she is supervised by Richard Widdess. Her doctoral thesis is a music-analytical study of the North Indian semi-classical genre, ṭhumrī.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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