Michael Bakan

{{Short description|American ethnomusicologist}}

Michael Bakan is a professor of ethnomusicology at Florida State University and director of the Balinese gamelan ensemble Sekaa Gong Hanuman Agung ("Gamelan Club of the Great Hanuman"). He wrote Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur,{{cite book | last = Bakan | first = Michael | title = Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur | year = 1999 | publisher = University of Chicago Press | isbn = 0-226-03488-7 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/musicofdeathnewc0000baka }} a book said to have "elevated gamelan beleganjur to the level of the much better known gong kebyar".{{cite journal | last = Harnish | first = David | year = 2000 | title = Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur (review) | journal = Notes | volume = 57 | issue = 2 | pages = 412–414 | url = http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/notes/v057/57.2harnish.html | accessdate = 2006-08-16 | doi = 10.1353/not.2000.0073| s2cid = 191619763 }}

Michael is the brother of noted Canadian legal theorist Joel Bakan.