A Note on Contributors

Elaine R. Barkin is Professor Emerita at the University of California Los Angeles Department of Music. Barkin joined the UCLA music faculty in 1974 and retired in 1997. Her music has been recorded on CRI and OPEN SPACE; her writings have been published in New Music journals. In 1980 she began exploring real-time interactive music making out of which emerged UCLA’s Experimental Workshop. Starting in 1987, she became engrossed in the performance and study of Balinese gamelan and spent five summers in Bali learning and absorbing it. Since 1990 Barkin, Ben Boretz, and Jim Randall have co-produced the OPEN SPACE series of CDs, books, and scores. In the Fall of 1996, Barkin taught a Semester at Sea and journeyed around the world. With Lydia Hamessley, she co-edited the book Audible Traces: gender, identity, and music (2000).

Robert Mawuena Kwami is Professor in Music at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and a Visiting Research Fellow of the Institute of Education, London University. He holds a teacher’s diploma (LRAM) in singing, BA in Music and PGCE Reading University. His MA in Music Education (with distinction) and PhD are from the University of London Institute of Education. He also holds a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from the Open University. He is director of CIMA, and editor of Intercultural Music and Intercultural Musicology. His extensive teaching experience includes institutions in Ghana, Nigeria, England, Wales, and Scotland. He has served on the music panel of the Curriculum Council of Wales and the English music curriculum review panel. He has over 60 publications including books and articles in academic and professional journals. He has over 30 compositions, and his research areas include African Musics, Music Education, Intercultural Musicology and Music Technology.

Jill Scarfe is a music education consultant and Education Officer, Pt Ram Sahai Sangit Vidyalaya. Before then Dr. Scarfe was Senior Lecturer in Music Education in the School of Education, University of Derby. Scarfe has taught music in Primary and Secondary Schools for many years and has developed a particular interest in strategies which introduce world music into the curriculum. In addition to lecturing and writing extensively in Britain, she has directed workshops and seminars in Institutions and Higher Education Faculties in the USA, India, Trinidad and Pakistan. She has also co-authored two books on music education for teachers. Concern at the apparent failure of the education system to cater for the musical needs of children from the Punjabi Muslim community in Britain led her to undertake the doctoral research. The research took place in the Midlands of England and in Pakistan, in particular the Mirpuri district of Azad Kashmir, and her thesis was short-listed for the British Education Research Association Dissertation Award 2002.