Mark Slobin

Mark Slobin is an American scholar and ethnomusicologist who has written extensively on the subject of East European Jewish music and klezmer music. 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 [1].

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

Published works

• 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.)

Further Reading

Marcello Sorce Keller, “Mark Slobin”, in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Personenteil XV. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2006, 914-915.

External links

• An Interview on Klezmershack with Slobin on Klezmer Music and musicologist Moshe Beregovskii.

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