Dr. Frank Gunderson

Gunderson is the general editor of the Society for Ethnomusicology's academic journal, Ethnomusicology, and the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the society's new academic journal, Audiovisual Ethnomusicology. He is co-staring alongside Benjamin Harbert. Before becoming general editor, Gunderson worked as the magazine's film, video, and multimedia review editor and twice as a guest editor for the World of Music journal.

Over 50 essays and reviews have been published in Ethnomusicology, Africa Today, History and Anthropology, Soundings, and African Music.

Extensive fieldwork in east Africa is also credited for audio work. Tanzania has made notable records in this field, including: Multicultural Media published Farmer Composers of North West Tanzania in 1997. Based on their East Africa study, a book co-edited with Gregory Barz was published in 2000. Mashindano! : Competitive Music East Africa performance. This was published by Nyota Press/African Books Collective LTD and Michigan State University Press. We Never Sleep, We Dream of Farming: Sukuma Labor Songs from Western Tanzania, published by Brill Academic Press in 2010, won the SEM Kwabena Nketia Book Award for the best African music monograph from 2009 to 2011.