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 Paul Binski FBA

Western European art and architecture 1100-1400; royal and ecclesiastical patronage; the art of liturgy and death; hagiography; wall, panel and manuscript painting; Cambridge illuminated manuscripts; international artistic relations.

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Professor Dorothy Price FBA

Modern and contemporary art through the lens of race, sexuality and gender with particular expertise in German modernism and Black British Art

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Professor Simon Frith FBA

The sociology of music; popular music history, music policy & the analysis of music business & culture

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