FRANK GUNDERSON, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, received a B.A. from the Evergreen State College (WA), an M.A. in World Music at Wesleyan University , and a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University (CT). He has taught at Ohio University, the University of Michigan and the University of Oklahoma, and has also taught in a secondary school in Kenya. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Tanzania, and has produced the CD "Tanzania: Farmer Composers of North West Tanzania "(1997, Multicultural Media).

Gunderson is an active member of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the College Music Society, and the African Studies Association. He has published articles and reviews in Ethnomusicology and Africa Today, is a recent guest editor of the journal The World of Music, and co-edited the book Mashindano!: Competitive Music Performance in East Africa (2000, Mkukina Nyota Press/African Books Collective LTD). He is currently writing a book about musical labor practices in northwestern Tanzania.