Michael B. Bakan is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the College of Music at Florida State University, where he also directs the university’s Balinese gamelan ensemble, Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the prestigious Florida State University Undergraduate Teaching Award. His first book, Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur (University of Chicago Press, 1999), was selected to the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles list for the year 2000 and was recognized as one of the two "most significant publications on Balinese music in almost half a century" in The Times (London). His many other publications encompass topics ranging from Indonesian music and world percussion to electronic music technology, early jazz history, multicultural music education, and the ethnomusicology of autism. He is the Series Editor of the critically acclaimed ABC-CLIO World Music Series, published in four volumes in 2004 and 2005, and also of a new world music book series that is being published by Routledge.
As a percussionist, Bakan has performed with many renowned world music, jazz, and Western classical music artists and ensembles, including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Music at Marlboro Festival Orchestra, John Cage, A. J. Racy, Phil Nimmons, I Ketut Sukarata, and the championship beleganjur groups of Batur Tengah and Tatasan Kaja in Bali, Indonesia. He is also an active composer, with traditional and experimental works for Balinese gamelan, world music/ jazz fusion pieces, film scores, and modern dance compositions to his credit.
Bakan formerly taught ethnomusicology at Bowling Green State University and has been a visiting professor or invited lecturer at the University of Washington, Indiana University, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois, and the University of Colorado. He previously served as president of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Southeast/Caribbean Chapter. He lives in Tallahassee with his wife, Megan, their two children, their dog Wallace, and multiple outdoor cats.
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