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.
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2007
Subjects
Music

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Katharine Ellis FBA

The cultural history of music in France during the long nineteenth century: social and ideological factors influencing composition, performance, education and audience experience; music criticism; music in fiction; women's history

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Professor John Butt FBA

Music History USA, Canada and/or Mexico Resident in California for 9 years Central Europe Much work on German musical culture

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