Mark Slobin is an American

United States

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 scholar and ethnomusicologist who has written extensively on the subject of East European Jewish music

Jewish music

Jewish music is the music and melodies of the Jewish People which have evolved over time throughout the long course of Jewish History. In some instances Jewish Music is of a religious nature, spiritual songs and refrains are common in Jewish Services throughout the world, while other times, it is...

 and klezmer

Klezmer

Klezmer is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe. Played by professional musicians called klezmorim, the genre originally consisted largely of dance tunes and instrumental display pieces for weddings and other celebrations...

 music. He is a Professor of Music and American Studies

American studies

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 at Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

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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 http://www.library.yale.edu/judaica/music/bios.html.

In 1981 and 2001, he edited and reissued collections of the Ukrainian

Ukraine

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 Jewish ethnomusicologist Moses Beregovsky

Moses Beregovsky

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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.