Introduction
to Music Cultures of the World
Music
of Southeast Asia
Andrew
N. Weintraub
Ph.D., University of California,
Berkeley (1997)
M.A., University of Hawai`i (1990)
B.A., University of California,
Santa Cruz (1985)
Andrew Weintraub is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the music of Indonesia, particularly Sundanese music, dance, and theater of West Java. His articles have appeared in edited books and journals including Ethnomusicology, Asian Music, Asian Theatre Journal, Perfect Beat, and Balungan. Recent work includes a complete English translation and text transcription of an all-night Sundanese puppet theater performance (Lontar Publications, 1998), and articles on music of ethnic communities in Hawai`i (Honolulu: State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, 1995). As a practitioner of Indonesian gamelan and martial arts, he has performed in the U.S., Canada, Asia, and Europe.
Weintraub joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 1997. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in ethnomusicology and popular music, and he directs the University of Pittsburgh gamelan program. He is currently completing a book manuscript that traces the relationship between performing arts, culture, and politics in Indonesia during the New Order, 1966-1998.
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