Project Team
Jennifer Fraser
Roles: Principal Investigator, Site Designer & Development, Author, and Editor.Bio: Jennifer Fraser is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Anthropology at Oberlin College. Her first book, Gongs and Pop Songs: Sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia, investigates the ways Minangkabau people in West Sumatra, Indonesia, use radically different sounding gong ensembles to negotiate community, ethnicity, and their place in the world. But since publishing that book, she's been exploring community-engaged work and re-envisioning the way ethnographic knowledge is shared, resulting in this Digital Humanities project.
Email: jfraser@oberlin.edu
Website: https://www.oberlin.edu/jennifer-fraser
Sumatra-Based Contributors
Saiful Hadi
Roles: Collaborator in and Co-Designer of Ethnographic Research 2015-2016Bio: Still to come
Dr. Arzul Jama'an
Roles: Host Father, Consultant on Research Design, and Transcription of Song TextsBio: Still to come
Martis
Roles: Research Collaborator and Teacher for Ethnographic Fieldwork 2003-2004Bio: Still to come
Mak Il St. Rajo Endah
Roles: Research Collaborator and Teacher for Ethnographic Fieldwork 2003-2004
U.S.-Based Contributors
Gabriela Linares
Role: Assistant Site Designer & BuilderBio: Gabriela Linares, a Puerto Rican ethnomusicologist in training and a singer, is a recent graduate from Oberlin Conservatory who will be starting her masters degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the Fall of 2021. She has collaborated with Jennifer Fraser on various projects including this site, Song in the Sumatran Highlands, since the summer of 2020. Gabriela worked on mapping places into an interactive map that is powered by google, from where these peoples and then music mobilized. She also contributed to creating individual pages for each place, person, song, and type of song. Throughout this process Gabriela began to grasp the ongoing history that was lived by musicians within the saluang genre. As the project took the form of a website, she was able to connect material notes, songs and their individual renditions at different performances through hyperlinks, revealing the ways in which the material is intertwined. In addition, Gabriela contributed the idea of an interactive timeline that gives users an evolving experience of each performance. She is a strong believer in and advocate for the digital humanities. She believes that the digital humanities have allowed us to access multimodal ways of presenting and engaging with materials.
Megan S. Mitchell
Role: Technical Consultant for Digital Humanities & ScalarBio: Academic Engagement & Digital Initiatives Coordinator Oberlin College Libraries
Benjamin Simonson
Role: Map Designer (designed maps of Alam Minangkabau, Darek, & Rantau)Contact: Ben Simonson, Designer @ simonson.design