Professor

Paul Franklin Berliner

Duke University
Musicologist; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Performing Arts
Elected
2004
Professor of Ethnomusicology. Research revealed the rigors of improvisation within the oral traditions of Zimbabwean mbira music and American jazz. Interprets the impact of war on cultural legacies in Zimbabwe by contextualizing processes of music learning, transmission, and innovation in relation to religious and sociopolitical life in Zimbabwe.
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