Elizabeth Clendinning

Elizabeth Clendinning is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Music at Wake Forest University, specializing in Balinese gamelan and Indonesian performing arts. She directs Gamelan Giri Murti ensemble.

Research examines:

• Transmission of Indonesian arts in global contexts
• Cultural sustainability and environmental connections
• American gamelan communities
• Pedagogical approaches to world music
• Representation in film/media

Her publications include American Gamelan and the Ethnomusicological Imagination and co-authorship of Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia. Current bamboo suling research received AIFIS-Luce funding.

She has held leadership roles in the Society for Ethnomusicology including Council membership and chair of Women's Status Committee.