The Contributors (Volume 6)

JOAO DA SILVA completed his PhD in Musicology at Newcastle University with Dr. Ian Biddle and Dr. Nanette DeJong. The main focus of his research is music of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, and his interests include cultural theory, theories of narrative, theories and technologies of memory, historiography, sociology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and cultural geography. He has been a member of NET-MD (a research center based in the Universidade Nova de Lisboa) since 2002, and was part of the editorial collective of the Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX (Encyclopedia of Music in Portugal in the Twentieth Century), directed by Professor Salwa Castelo-Branco, working mostly on fado and popular song.

INGRID FERNANDEZ is a Ph.D. candidate in the Programme in Modern Thought & Literature,Stanford University, and is a multidisciplinary scholar who focuses on bodily representation and identity construction through images in popular Western Culture. She is currently working on Dead Body Studies. Unlike studies dealing with cultural rituals aimed at the disposal of the dead, which have much more to do with the living, Dead Body Studies solely focus on the space of the corpse as a material presence in society. This in turn allows scholars to find unexpected places in which certain unmediated images of corpses arise. Other research interests include: bio-politics and bio-ethics; photography and art history; representation of cadavers in literature, film and television; and forensic sciences.

AMY FRISHKEY is a Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, finishing a dissertation exploring encounters between grassroots and neoliberal developments in the popular music of the Afro-Amerindian Garifuna people of Central America’s Atlantic coast. She is the co-author of Guide to Resources in Ethnic Studies on Minority Populations (Edwin Mellen Press, 2000) and has written extensively on vocal “otherness”: in university choral groups, the “trip-hop” electronic dance music genre, and Bulgarian women’s singing. Future projects include an ethnomusicological examination of Garifuna women singing non-Garifuna songs and an historical analysis of the voice trope in Brian De Palma’s 1974 film Phantom of the Paradise as a register for an emerging postmodernity.

BETHANY LOWE is Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Music at Plymouth University. She has published articles on performance analysis, the music of Sibelius, and Buddhist theories of mind, and is currently pursuing research topics in overtone singing and self-referential song. Her doctoral work took place within the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Materials at Southampton University, and she also studied at King’s College London and Oxford University. Other interests include orchestral conducting, music theory, and medical ethnomusicology.

ANNE MARSHMAN is Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore. Her research and writings, including the recent volume of essays, Performers' Voices Across Centuries and Cultures (Imperial College Press, 2011), have been published in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Research interests include musical applications of Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary and linguistic theories, relationships between music and Carl Jung’s analytical psychology, music reception, performance theory and the music of Mozart, Stravinsky and Tippett. Previously she lectured in music history at the University of Melbourne and oboe at Griffith University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne.