Oral Tradition Volume 19, Number 2October 2004
About the Authors
Sabir Badalkhan
Sabir Badalkhan, Ph.D. in folklore (“Minstrelsy Tradition in Balochistan,” Naples, 1994), teaches at the University of Naples. His research interests include oral tradition in Balochistan (both in Pakistan and Iran); itinerant musicians, singers, and storytellers in southwest Asia; and the presence of African musical culture in Pakistan. He has published widely on Balochi oral traditions, and among his articles are “The Changing Contents of Baloch Women’s Songs” and “An Introduction to the Performance of Verbal Art in Balochistan.”
Robert Cochran
Robert Cochran is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, where he chairs the American Studies program and directs the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies. His latest book is Come Walk With Me (2004); his survey of Arkansas music, Our Own Sweet Sounds, will be published in 2005. He is currently at work on a biography of Nebraska folklorist Louise Pound.
Margalit Finkelberg
Margalit Finkelberg is Professor and Chair of Classics at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece (1998) and co-editor of Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World (2003). Her book entitled Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition will be published in 2005.
Wakefield Foster
H. Wakefield Foster has been a professional freelance oboist in Houston, Texas since 1972. He is currently working toward his Ph.D. in Classics at the University of Missouri- Columbia and has published “The Role of Music” in The Wedding of Mustajbey’s Son Becirbey as Performed by Halil Bajgoric (2004).
Marie Nelson
Marie Nelson received her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1973, and has taught a variety of medieval literature, linguistics, and writing courses at the University of Florida. She has published two books, Structures of Opposition in Old English Poetry (1989) and Judith, Juliana, and Elene: Three Fighting Saints (1991), as well as a number of essays on Old, Middle, and modern English literature in Speculum, Neophilologus, Mythlore, Oral Tradition, and other journals.
Lillis Ó Laoire
Lillis Ó Laoire is currently Head of School for Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His teaching and research interests include the Irish language, Celtic culture, and folklore. He has won national awards for his traditional singing in the Irish Language and has published in the area of Irish song studies, including a monograph on the singing of Tory Island, Ireland. His biography of Joe Heaney, co-written with Sean Williams, won the Alan P. Merriam Prize in 2012.
