Philip V. Bohlman

Ethnomusicologist studying the significance of the music of ethnic and religious groups across the globe. His books, which are central to the field of ethnomusicology and include World Music: A Very Short Introduction (2002), Judische Volksmusik - Eine mitteleurop?ische Geistesgeschichte (2005), Jewish Music and Modernity (2008) and Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe (2011), brought wide attention to the insights that diverse music holds for humanistic inquiry, particularly the cultural and religious insights that can be extrapolated therein. Honors include the Edward Dent Medal, the Derek Allen Prize, the Donald Tovey Prize, and the Berlin Prize.