David Harnish Music Department, College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Diego, San Diego United States
David Harnish, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Music Department at University of San Diego. An Ethnomusicologist, he has published 60 articles, the book Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth and Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival, and two acclaimed volumes of essays. He is a double Fulbright and National Foundation Scholar and has consulted for the BBC, National Geographic, MTV-Fulbright Awards, ACLS, and the Smithsonian Institute. As a performer, he has recorded Indonesian, jazz, Indian and Tejano musics with five different labels. He co-directs Balinese Gamelan Gunung Mas at USD and serves as Academic Liaison to the Kyoto Prize Symposium.