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Annette Sanger

Balinese Gamelan

B.A. (Hons), Ph.D. (Queen’s University, Belfast )
email: sanger@utsc.utoronto.ca
http://individual.utoronto.ca/kippen/Ethnomusicology/About.html




Annette Sanger is an ethnomusicologist specializing in the performing arts of Bali , , Indonesia . Two years’ fieldwork in Balinese villages, and several other shorter visits, culminated in her Ph.D. as well as many articles on music and dance in the context of social life, tourism, ritual, and the broader cultural milieu.

Dr. Sanger was an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and taught Balinese Gamelan at the Queen’s University of Belfast . Since coming to Toronto she has continued her teaching, and was also Director of the University Settlement Music & Arts School for ten years.

Currently, she teaches several courses on a part-time basis at UTSC (e.g. World Music, Music for the Theatre, Performing Arts of Asia), and directs the Balinese Gamelan in the Faculty of Music. She also works as an arts administrator, and is a member of Gamelan Gong Sabrang, a Javanese gamelan collective based at the Indonesian Consulate in Toronto.





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