Education
Becker completed a bachelor"s degree in music at the University of Michigan before completing the doctorate there in 1972.
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Becker completed a bachelor"s degree in music at the University of Michigan before completing the doctorate there in 1972.
She is a scholar of the musical and religious cultures of South and Southeast Asia, the Islamic world and the Americas. Her work combines linguistic, musical, anthropological, and empirical perspectives. As an ethnomusicologist and Southeast Asianist, she is noted for her study of musics in South and Southeast Asia, including Javanese gamelan, Burmese harp, music and trance, music and emotion, neuroscience, and a theoretical rapprochement of empirical and qualitative methods.
Becker teaches at the University of Michigan.
In 2000, Becker was named the Glenn McGeoch Collegiate Professor of Musicology at the University of Michigan, and she was named emeritus professor in 2008. From 1993 to 1997, she was a Senior Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows.
These studies, which were informed by ethnography as well as other research methods, were the basis for Becker"s books Gamelan Stories (1993) and Deep Listeners (2004). From 1968 to 2002, Becker was director of the University of Michigan Javanese gamelan ensemble (Kyai Telaga Madu), and with Becker directed many performances of wayang and klenengang in Ann Arbor and Indonesia.
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"Ethnomusicology and Empiricism in the Twenty-First Century".
She was named an Honorary Member of the Society for Ethnomusicology in 2010.