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Professor Philip Bohlman FBA

Ethnomusicology: music as an agent of change in culture and modern history; music and religion and race; music in European Judaism and Islam.

Elected 2007

Fellow type
Corresponding Fellow
Year elected
2007
Sections
History of Art and Music
Website
https://music.uchicago.edu/people/philip-v-bohlman

Current post

Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music, The University of Chicago

Past appointments

Yale University Visiting Distinguished Professor of Ethnomusicology and Ritual Studies

2006 -

University of Berlin Gastprofessor, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

2005 -

Newcastle University Vising Professor of Music

2002 - 2006

The University of Chicago Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music

1987 -

Other Foreign Institutions MacMurray College, Jacksonville, Illinois, USA

1982 - 1984

Publications

World Music: A Very Short Introduction 2002

Jüdische Volksmusik - Eine Mitteleuropäische Geistesgeschichte 2005

Jewish Music and Modernity 2008

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