User:Laurel Myers Hurst

(b. 1968) Hurst holds a M.A. in Ethnomusicology from Kent State University. She is the student of Kazadi wa Mukuna and Halim Abdel Messieh El-Dabh. Her graduate thesis explores the role of rhythmic cycling in Black Gospel improvisation. Hurst has also completed fieldwork in the Assyrian Church of the East and in the Mainland Chinese church in diaspora. Her current research applies an ethnomusicological approach to the sound art of El-Dabh.