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Maria Mendona
Maria Mendona is Assistant Professor in Asian Music and Culture in the Music and Anthropology Departments at Kenyon College. Her research interests include Indonesian music (particularly gamelan traditions of Java and Sunda), globalization of culture, and music and prisons. She has worked as an ethnomusicologist in a variety of settings in the United States and the United Kingdom, including Ethnomusicology Editor for the 2001 edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, as well as advising and leading projects involving gamelan performance and education for a range of British arts institutions, including the South Bank Centre, St David’s Hall, Cardiff, and the Hallé Orchestra.