Mark Slobin

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Name Mark Slobin


Books Subcultural sounds, Chosen Voices: The Story, Folk Music: A Very Short Intr, Tenement Songs, American Klezmer

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Mark Slobin is an American scholar and ethnomusicologist who has written extensively on the subject of East European Jewish music and klezmer music, as well as the music of Afghanistan, where he conducted research beginning in 1967. He is a Professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University.

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.

In 1981 and 2001, he edited and reissued collections of the Ukrainian Jewish ethnomusicologist Moses Beregovsky.

“Sung Poetics”: Mark Slobin on Why the World Needs to Hear Yiddish Song

Published works

Professor Slobin's CV lists some three dozen works, including these:

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.

Website

Fieldwork and other materials from Afghanistan

References

Mark Slobin Wikipedia

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