Författare i STM-Online 14 (2011)

Ulla-Britta Broman-Kananen is a postdoc researcher at Sibelius Academy. During 2010–2013 she works in a research project at Sibelius Academy “The Finnish Opera Company (1873–1879) from a Microhistorical Perspective: Performance Practices, Multiple Narrations, and Polyphony of Voice” funded by the Academy of Finland. Broman-Kananen has together with Anne Sivuoja-Gunaratnam also been engaged in a research project “Cantatrices Achtés” since 2006 which concentrates on the rich letter material by Emmy Achté and her two daughers, Aïno Acké and Irma Tervani, all of them professional opera singers.

Andreas Meyer is currently lecturer in ethnomusicology at Freie Universität Berlin and at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. His areas of study include African and African American music, ethnoorganology, local popular music. He conducted fieldwork in Trinidad & Tobago as well as in Ghana and published books on calypso music (Der traditionelle Calypso auf Trinidad, 1990), African drums (Afrikanische Trommeln – West- und Zentralafrika, 1997), and 20th century Ghanaian Music (Überlieferung, Individualität und musikalische Interaktion, 2005). Furthermore, he wrote several articles on musical transculturation (e. g. On the way [back]? African American Percussion Instruments in Ghana, 2009).

Annika Lindskog is lecturer in Swedish at the Department of Scandinavian studies at University College London (UCL), where she teaches Swedish language alongside cultural history and landscape studies in a Nordic perspective. Her research focuses broadly on the interaction between cultural expression and historical develpments, with particular current emphasis on landscape and national identity in the 19/20 century.