Scientific Committee
Jeremy Wallach (on behalf Esther Clinton)
Bowling Green State University
Professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University. Dr. Wallach is a cultural anthropologist specializing in popular music and globalization, he has written or co-written over forty research essays; co-edited, with Esther Clinton, a special issue of Asian Music (2013); and authored the monograph Modern Noise, Fluid Genres: Popular Music in Indonesia, 1997-2001 (Univ. of Wisconsin, 2008; Indonesian Ed., Komunitas Bambu, 2017). In 2011, he co-edited, with Harris M. Berger and Paul D. Greene, the collection Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music around the World (Duke) and in 2023 the collection Defiant Sounds: Heavy Metal Music in the Global South with Nelson Varas-Díaz, Esther Clinton, and Daniel Nevárez-Araújo. Dr. Wallach has given research presentations in Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and throughout the United States. A founding member and former chair of the Society for Ethnomusicology Popular Music Section, Dr. Wallach serves on the editorial board of the Journal of World Popular Music Studies and is a Series Editor of the Music/Culture Series at Wesleyan University Press. His writings have appeared in Ars Lyrica, Asian Music, Ethnomusicology, Indonesia, the Journal for Cultural Research, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Popular Music History, Wacana Seni Journal of Arts Discourse, the Journal of World Popular Music Studies, and numerous edited collections, including The Cambridge Companion to Metal Music (2023), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rock Music Research (2020), and The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures (2024).
