Tara Browner is the author of Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance
of the Northern Pow-Wow (University of Illinois Press, 2002), editor of
Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North
American Music (University of Illinois Press, 2009), and editor of
Songs from "A New Circle of Voices:" The 16th Annual Pow-wow at UCLA
(Music of the United States of America [MUSA], A-R Editions, Madison,
Wisconsin, 2008). She has published in several major journals including
Ethnomusicology, The Journal of Musicological Research, and
American Music, and also regularly presents papers at national and
international conferences. In addition to her scholarly activities, she is
on the Native American Music screening committee for the Grammy Awards,
is a pow-wow dancer in the Women's Southern Cloth tradition, and a
professional percussionist and timpanist. Her current research focus is
on manifestations of pow-wow culture in Northern Europe.

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