Mark Slobin

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Mark Slobin is an American scholar and

American Studies from 1971 to 2016.[1][2]

He has been the president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Society for Asian Music.[3] Two of his books on Jewish music have won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award.[4]

In 1981 and 2001, he edited and reissued collections of the

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.

Further reading

Marcello Sorce Keller, “Mark Slobin”, in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Personenteil XV. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2006, 914–915.

References

  1. ^ "Mark Slobin". markslobin.com.
  2. ^ "Mark Slobin - Faculty, Wesleyan University".
  3. ^ Jewish currents - Volume 32 - Page 26 Morning Freiheit Association - 1978 "Editor of Asian Music, the journal of the Society for Asian Music, and vice-president of the Society for Ethnomusicology, he is currently researching immigrant music in the USA."
  4. ^ "Biographies of Conference Speakers". Archived from the original on 2017-01-06. Mark Slobin]" [speaker bio] (2003). Conference: "Celebrating Jewish Music at Yale University", April 12-13, 2003. Yale University Library. library.yale.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-05.

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