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professor margaret j. kartomi
Professor Kartomi has also published various research
articles on Indonesian, other Southeast Asian, Australian
Aboriginal and European music, as well as on musicological/ethnomusicological
theory. Recently, her field recordings from 24 of
Indonesia’s 27 provinces were presented to Indonesia’s
Secretary-General of Culture for deposit in the National
Library in Jakarta. She has twice been elected President
of the Musicological Society, is a Council member
of the Society for Ethnomusicology and is an Editorial
Board member of the University of Chicago Press Ethnomusicology
Monograph Series. She was elected a Fellow of the
Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1984 and in
1991 was a Member of the Order of Australia for servies
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Margaret
Kartomi is Professor of Music at Monash University,
where she pioneered the teaching and research of Asian
music. She trained as a pianist, composer, musicologist
and ethnomusicologist at Adelaide and Humbolt Universities.
Over the past 30 years she and her Monash students
have been researching the music of many parts of Asia.
She is author and/or editor of several books including
On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments
for the University of Chicago Press (1990).