Creator Bio
Mark Slobin
b. 1943
Born in Detroit, Mark Slobin is an ethnomusicologist, specialist in East European Jewish music, and translator, who teaches at Wesleyan University. He has served as president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and Society for Asian Music. Slobin’s projects and writings have earned him the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and a lifetime achievement award in Jewish Studies from the Foundation for Jewish Culture.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate
Twenty-three Jews came to America in 1654 and some five million live in the United States today. Though this seems like a long story, it is but a short chapter in the history of Judaism. Anything…
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American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots
What we now routinely call klezmer in the United States—“Do you play klezmer?” “There’s a new klezmer album out”—is a truly American construct in three ways: the word sidesteps aesthetic and political…