Kimberlin, Cynthia Tse
Cynthia Tse Kimberlin received her BA in musicology from the University of California, Berkeley, and MA and Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from UCLA. She has taught at San Francisco State University, University of California, Berkeley, Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), and the University of Ife (Nigeria). She is currently Executive Director of the Music Research Institute and Publisher of MRI Press in Richmond, California. She was affiliated with the Office of the President (Academic Affairs) at the University of California, Berkeley. Her areas of expertise are Africa, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and the USA. She is currently editing volume 3 of a book series on intercultural music. As publisher, she has just released a CD of the opera Chaka composed by Akin Euba. New publications include "The Scholarship and Art of Ashenafi Kebede (1938-1998)" in Ethnomusicology (1999), "Issues in Organology: The Musical Instrument Collection at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies' Museum, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia," Addis Ababa University (1999), "The USA Government: Arbiter or Catalyst for the Arts?" Intercultural Music 2 (1999), and "Women, Music and Chains of the Mind: Eritrea and the Tigre Region of Ethiopia 1972-1993" in Gender and Music in Shifting Worlds (2000).
Archive Call Number: Tape 10109
1 sound tape reel: Tape accompanying Kimberlin’s dissertation. Contents: ancihoye ganat, bati ganat.