Mark Slobin is an American scholar and

ethnomusicologist Ethnomusicology is the multidisciplinary study of music in its cultural context. The discipline investigates social, cognitive, biological, comparative, and other dimensions. Ethnomusicologists study music as a reflection of culture and investiga ...

who has written extensively on the subject of

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Jewish music Jewish music is the music and melodies of the Jewish people. There exist both traditions of religious music, as sung at the synagogue and in domestic prayers, and of secular music, such as klezmer. While some elements of Jewish music may origina ...

and

klezmer Klezmer ( or ) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for listening; these wou ...

music, as well as the music of Afghanistan, where he conducted research beginning in 1967. He is Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus at

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a Private university, private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1831 as a Men's colleges in the United States, men's college under the Methodi ...

, where he taught both music and

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from 1971 to 2016. He has been the president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Society for Asian Music. Two of his books on Jewish music have won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Mark Slobin]" peaker bio(2003). Conference: "Celebrating Jewish Music at Yale University", April 12-13, 2003. Yale University Library. library.yale.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-05. In 1981 and 2001, he edited and reissued collections of the Ukrainian

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ethnomusicologist Moses Beregovsky.

Published works

* Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West * Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate * Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants * Fiddler on the Move : Exploring the Klezmer World * American Klezmer : Its roots and offshoots * Old Jewish Folk Music: The Collections and Writings of Moshe Beregovski * Global Soundtracks : Worlds of film music (ed.) * Music in the Culture of Northern Afghanistan. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. (1976)

Documentary

* 1981 "Number 7: They All Know It," video, as project supervisor, script co-writer. * 1983 "Music in the Afghan North," video * 1986 "More than a Singer," project director, script consultant * 2003 Afghanistan Untouched, 2-cd set of field recordings, Traditional Crossroads.

References

External links

"Slobin’s Afghanistan Music Recordings, Field Notes Archived Online"

"The Mark Slobin Fieldwork Archive: Music in the Afghan North, 1967-1972"

on Klezmershack with Slobin on Klezmer Music and musicologist Moshe Beregovskii. {{DEFAULTSORT:Slobin, Mark Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Wesleyan University faculty American ethnomusicologists

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