Judith Becker
Ethnomusicologist
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- Bachelors Music University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Judith O. Becker is an American academic and educator. She is a scholar of the musical and religious cultures of South and Southeast Asia, the Islamic world and the Americas. Her work combines linguistic, musical, anthropological, and empirical perspectives. As an ethnomusicologist and Southeast Asianist, she is noted for her study of musics in South and Southeast Asia, including Javanese gamelan, Burmese harp, music and trance, music and emotion, neuroscience, and a theoretical rapprochement of empirical and qualitative methods. Becker teaches at the University of Michigan. In 2000, Becker was named the Glenn McGeoch Collegiate Professor of Musicology at the University of Michigan, and she was named professor emerita of music in 2008. From 1993 to 1997, she was a Senior Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows.
Judith Becker's Published Works
Published Works
- Cross-cultural perspectives on music and musicality (2015) (108)
- Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion, and Trancing (2004) (79)
- Religious Ecstatics, "Deep Listeners," and Musical Emotion (2009) (36)
- Voices in Bali: Energies and Perceptions in Vocal Music and Dance Theater (1999) (32)
- Is Western Art Music Superior (1986) (30)
- A Grammar of the Musical Genre Srepegan (1979) (28)
- Kroncong, Indonesian Popular Music (1975) (27)
- Ethnomusicology and Empiricism in the Twenty-First Century (2009) (24)
- The alcohol hangover. (2001) (23)
- Music and Trance (2016) (21)
- The rāgs of North Indian music (1973) (19)
- Exploring the Habitus of Listening (1993) (18)
- Traditional Drama and Music of Southeast Asia (1978) (15)
- Percussive Patterns in the Music of Mainland Southeast Asia (1968) (12)
- Crossing Boundaries: An Introductory Essay (2009) (12)
- Everyday Music Listening: Absorption, Dissociation and Trancing (2014) (10)
- Folk and Traditional Music of the Western Continents (1967) (9)
- The Anatomy of a Mode (1969) (8)
- Art, Ritual and Society in Indonesia. (1983) (7)
- A Southeast Asian Musical Process: Thai Thaw and Javanese Irama (1980) (7)
- The Migration of the Arched Harp from India to Burma (1967) (6)
- Music of the Pwo Karen of Northern Thailand (1964) (6)
- Responses to Feld and Roseman (1984) (6)
- Listening selves and spirit possession (2000) (4)
- A Reconsideration in the Form of a Dialogue (1982) (3)
- Migration and Confession among Sixteenth-Century Western European Reformed Christians (2011) (3)
- A Brief Note on Turtles, Claptrap, and Ethnomusicology (1991) (2)
- Voices in Bali (1997) (2)
- European Missions in Contact Zones: Transformation through Interaction in a (Post-)Colonial World (2015) (2)
- Europe as the Other: External Perspectives on European Christianity (2013) (2)
- Call and Response—Revisited (Ethnomusicology and Empiricism) (2010) (2)
- What was European about Christianity?: Early Nineteenth-Century Missionaries’ Perceptions (2013) (1)
- Europe as the Other (2014) (1)
- The Magic Kite and Other Ma'yong Stories (1967) (1)
- Review Essay@@@The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance: [Asia] (1993) (1)
- Ecclesiology in the Dutch Church of London : Conflicts between Competing Church Models during the 1560s (2007) (0)
- Introduction: European Missions in Contact Zones. Transformation Through Interaction in a (Post-)Colonial World (2015) (0)
- Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender, and the Music of the Wayang in Central Java. By Sarah Weiss. 2006. Leiden: KITLV Press. viii, 187 pp., CD-ROM. $35.00 (paper). (2008) (0)
- Careers within “The Professoriat” (positions at time of interview) (2019) (0)
- Missions in Africa: Lutheran Churches, Enculturation, and Ecumenism (2017) (0)
- Carly L. Crouch & Jonathan Stökl (eds.): In the Name of God. The Bible in the Colonial Discourse of Empire (2015) (0)
- Book review: Music Asylums: Wellbeing through Music in Everyday Life (2015) (0)
- Self-Positioning in and Reflections on the Field (2019) (0)
- Review: Music in Bali by Colin McPhee (1968) (0)
- A LEADING EDGE TIMING AND ENERGY DISCRIMINATOR (1983) (0)
- 2. Die Basler Mission in Südindien 1834–1860 (2015) (0)
- Liberated by Christ: Evangelical Missionaries and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century South India (2015) (0)
- 3.2 Sanctificatio – Heiligung in der Mission (2015) (0)
- Music in Bali . Colin McPhee . (1968) (0)
- Late Nineteen Twenties and Nineteen Thirties (2019) (0)
- Burmese Spirit Worship (2019) (0)
- Power Plays: Wayang Golek Puppet Theater of West Java (review) (2005) (0)
- Introduction: Europe as the Other: External Perspectives on European Christianity (2013) (0)
- Religious Music of Asia (1969) (0)
- Beyond the Edge (2006) (0)
- 4.2 Sanctificatio – Heiligung in Indien (2015) (0)
- Gendered Behaviour (2019) (0)
- Conceptions of Humanity in Nineteenth-Century German Protestant Missions (2016) (0)
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