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 Daniel Chua FBA

Music – Beethoven, the history of absolute music, music theory and analysis, exo-musicology, global musicology, and the intersection between music, philosophy and theology

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Professor Martin Kemp FBA

Now full-time writing, speaking and broadcasting on art and science, especially Leonardo da Vinci.

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Professor Elżbieta Witkowska-Zaremba FBA

History of music and music theory focused on Latin texts of the late Middle Ages and early modern era; the reception of the ancient writings on music up to 1600

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