Background
Bakan, Michael B. Son of Paul and Rita Bakan.
Bakan, Michael B. Son of Paul and Rita Bakan.
Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Los Angeles, 1993.
Assistant professor ethnomusicology Bowling Green State University, 1993—1994. Assistant professor ethnomusicology, College Music Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1994—2000, associate professor ethnomusicology, 2000—2008, associate professor ethnomusicology, head ethnomusicology, world music, College Music, 2008—2010. Professor ethnomusicology head World Music College, since 2010.
Series editor Routledge Focus World Music book series, since 2006, ABC-CLIO World Music Series, 2004—2005.
Member of Society Ethnomusicology (council member 2002-2005).
Married, May 16, 1998.