Michael B. Bakan, Professor of Ethnomusicology,
is Head of the World Music Ensembles Program in the College
of Music at Florida State University, where he directs the
Omnimusica intercultural ensemble and the Sekaa Gong Hanuman
Agung Balinese gamelan. His more than seventy publications
include the books World Music: Traditions and
Transformations, which has been adopted at over 200
universities and colleges worldwide; Music of Death and
New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan
Beleganjur, reviewed in The Times (London) as
one of the two “most significant publications on Balinese music
in almost half a century”; and the
recently published Speaking for Ourselves:
Conversations on Life, Music, and Autism, from Oxford
University Press (2018).
