EDWARD W. SARATHis Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, Director/Founder of the U-M Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies, and President/Founder of the International Society for Improvised Music. Active as artist and scholar, his previous book--Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society--is the first to appropriate to music principles of an emergent worldview called Integral Theory. DAVID E. MYERSis Professor of Music Education and Creative Studies in the School of Music at the University of Minnesota, where he served as the school's director from 2008-2015, and an administrative consultant for music at Augsburg College. He founded the Center for Educational Partnerships in Music at Georgia State University and is the American consultant for a joint European Master of Music degree for New Audiences and Innovative Practice. PATRICIA SHEHAN CAMPBELLis Donald E. Peterson Professor of Music at the University of Washington, where she teaches courses at the interface of education and ethnomusicology.
She is chair of the Advisory Board of Smithsonian Folkways and consultant in repatriation efforts for the recordings of Alan Lomax to communities in the American South. Author of Teaching Music Globally, Music in Cultural Contextand Musician and Teacher, she is recipient of the international Taiji Award for the preservation of traditional music. e Practice. PATRICIA SHEHAN CAMPBELLis Donald E. Peterson Professor of Music at the University of Washington, where she teaches courses at the interface of education and ethnomusicology. She is chair of the Advisory Board of Smithsonian Folkways and consultant in repatriation efforts for the recordings of Alan Lomax to communities in the American South. Author of Teaching Music Globally, Music in Cultural Contextand Musician and Teacher, she is recipient of the international Taiji Award for the preservation of traditional music.