Lisa Gold

Lisa Gold teaches at the University of California at Berkeley where she earned her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology with a specialization in Balinese and Javanese music in ritual & theater, gamelan gender wayang, and shadow puppetry. Other research interests include transmission and communicability, folklore and folk music of the British Isles, oral performance and improvisation, music and space and place, mediatization, and performance eco-systems. Gold has been a Visiting Professor at a number of...See more

Lisa Gold teaches at the University of California at Berkeley where she earned her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology with a specialization in Balinese and Javanese music in ritual & theater, gamelan gender wayang, and shadow puppetry. Other research interests include transmission and communicability, folklore and folk music of the British Isles, oral performance and improvisation, music and space and place, mediatization, and performance eco-systems. Gold has been a Visiting Professor at a number of institutions including Colorado College. She is an active member of Gamelan Sekar Jaya, Gamelan Sari Raras and ShadowLight. She has performed and conducted extensive research in Bali and the U.S., and is the author of a number of articles, including a chapter in Performing Arts in Postmodern Bali: Changing Interpretations, Founding Traditions. Graz Studies in Ethnomusicology (2013), the Bali article in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and a published paper presented at the International Seminar and Festival of Indonesian Music, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (2016). See less