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• 1 2021-02-04T18:50:58+00:00 Project Team 76 List of contributors and their roles within the project. plain 2022-01-06T01:45:37+00:00

  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 2015-2016
  Bio: Still to come

   

   

   

  Dr. Arzul Jama'an 

  Roles: Host Father, Consultant on Research Design, and Transcription of Song Texts
  Bio: Still to come

   

   

  Martis

  Roles: Research Collaborator and Teacher for Ethnographic Fieldwork 2003-2004 
  Bio: 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 & Builder
  Bio: 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 & Scalar
  Bio: 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