Professor Sara Cohen FBA

The anthropology of music, popular music culture and music ethnography, with particular interest in questions of place, migration, heritage, and identity.
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA
Subjects
Art history, Music

Current post

University of Liverpool James and Constance Alsop Chair in Music

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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.

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Professor Richard Widdess FBA

Musicology of South Asia, including history, theory, analysis and social context of music in North India and Nepal; music and religion in South Asia; analysis of world music; music cognition, performance and meaning in oral traditions

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Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach FBA

History, theory, and analysis of 13th- and 14th-century music; music and French poetry in the same period; themes of love, violence, gender, and sexuality

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