Ethnomusicology at the University of Washington 

Faculty and Staff 

Shannon Dudley (Room 28E, Music Building)

(206) 543-6308

dudley@u.washington.edu

Ethnomusicology Division Head; 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:

• 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.
  
  
  
  
  

  

Philip D. Schuyler (Room 28C, Music Building)

(206) 543-9878

pds2@u.washington.edu

Associate Professor of Music (M.A., Music, University of Washington; Ph.D., Music, University of Washington)

Areas of specialization: Middle East, Africa, Arab World; Ethnography of Performance

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:

• Gendered Dance Modes in Malang, East Java: Music, Movement and the Production of Local Senses of Identity (Dissertation: University of California, Berkeley, 2007)