Frank Gunderson

Frank Gunderson, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, has taught at FSU for six years. He received a B.A. from the Evergreen State College (WA), an M.A. in World Music at Wesleyan University, and a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University (CT). He has taught at Ohio University, the University of Michigan and the University of Oklahoma, and has also taught in a secondary school in Kenya. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Tanzania, and has produced the CD "Tanzania: Farmer Composers of North West Tanzania" (1997, Multicultural Media).

Gunderson is an active member of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the African Studies Association. He has published articles and reviews in Ethnomusicology, Africa Today, History and Anthropology, and African Music, was a guest editor of the journal The World of Music, and co-edited the book Mashindano!: Competitive Music Performance in East Africa (2000, Mkuki na Nyota Press/African Books Collective LTD). He recently completed a book about musical labor in northwestern Tanzania with Brill Academic Press. His academic interests include the music of Africa and the African diaspora, music and human rights, global popular music, and music and documentary film.