Founded RootsWorld in 1993. Produces Radio Planet Three at WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, CT and has contributed to fRoots, Dirty Linen, CMJ and many other publications. If this isn't enough, there's more.
Stone is a cultural anthropologist , writer and translator. He is Executive Director of the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University. He is also a contributing writer for fRoots. With his wife, Gabrielle Winkler, he is translator of Mexican anthropologist Norma Iglesias Prieto's Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora: Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana [La flor más bella de la maquiladora], University of Texas Press, 1997.
Primary Contributors
- Lee Blackstone is a radio producer and also a contributor to Dirty Linen.
- David Cox is a writer, editor, and activist living in Ontario, Canada. David co-organized the Quarter Moon Coffee House in Bloomfield, Ont., and he also contributes to rambles.net.
- Jim Foley is a radio wise-guy intrigued with world and lyrically intensive music.
- George De Stefano is a New York City-based critic and author who writes mainly about culture, politics, and ethnicity. His book, An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America (Faber and Faber, 2006) explores pop culture images of Italian and Italian American organized crime, from the silent film era to the present.
- Staffan Jonsson is a young fiddler from Sweden who is turning into a Norwegian hardangerfiddler.
- Eric Iverson is a critic and visual designer in St Paul/Minneapolis.
- Louis Gibson is an Oxford educated professor of sinusology on his native island of Watoo in the far-western south Pacific. In addition to his research into the nasal sounds of languages, he also plays the cabloo and translates the local poetry into iambic pentameter in his spare time.
- Helene Dunbar is a regular contributor to Irish Music Magazine.
- Nondas Kitsos is a Greek preservationist looking for ways to transcribe the "gamma" sound in English.
- Peggy Latkovich is a freelance writer and world music aficionada.
- Marty Lipp writes a monthly column on world music for Newsday (NY). As a freelancer, he has contributed to Global Rhythm, The Beat, Details, the New York Times and the Washington Post. As a father, he is currently trying to brainwash his 18-month-old son into loving Brazilian and Irish music.
- Philly Markowitz is a Canadian world music broadcaster and mother of 2 free-range kids who has recently taken up the accordion.
- Bill Nevins is a poet, teacher and rabblerouser in New Mexico. He is also a New Mexico Music Commissioner, appointed in 2005 by Governor Bill Richardson
- Tom Orr
- Philip Palmer is an English freelance music writer, saxophonist and translator based in Krakow. He has contributed articles to Jazzwise, focusing on the music scene in Poland.
- Stacy Phillips is a player of fiddle and dobro. He has written numerous books about the instruments.
- Tracy M. Rogers is the editor of The Aurora Review, a poet, photographer, and freelance music reviewer. She likes jazz music, crocheting and drinking green tea.
- Warren Senders is a musician (including the Anti-Gravity ensemble), classical Indian vocalist and life-long student of Indian musical culture
