Professor

Mark S. Slobin

Wesleyan University
Musicologist; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Performing Arts
Elected
2017

Following fieldwork in Afghanistan (1967-72) and the first book on its music, Slobin did major studies of Eastern European Jewish music (topics: immigrants, cantors, klezmers), global film music, theory of ethnomusicology (best known for "Subcultural Sounds") and, currently, his hometown Detroit. Two of his nearly 20 book projects received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for writing excellence. He served as President of the Society for Ethnomusicology and Society for Asian Music.

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