Philip V. Bohlman
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| Born | Philip Vilas Bohlman August 8, 1952 Boscobel, Wisconsin,U.S. |
| Occupation | Ethnomusicologist |
Philip Vilas Bohlman(born August 8, 1952) is an Americanethnomusicologist.[1]
Life and career
[edit]He is the Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, Music and the Humanities at theUniversity of Chicagoand a visiting professor at theHochschule für Musik und Theater(Hannover).[2]At Chicago, Bohlman is on the resource faculty of the Germanic Studies Department, the Mary Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, the Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, the Divinity School, and the Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture. Bohlman has held guest professorships at numerous universities, including theUniversity of California, Berkeley,theUniversity of Freiburg,theUniversity of Vienna,andYale University,among others.[3]Bohlman received his doctorate from theUniversity of Illinoisin 1984 and has been teaching at Chicago since 1987.[2]
Bohlman's research has been funded by theAlexander von Humboldt Foundationand often includes fieldwork inKolkataandVaranasi,India, and throughout Germany, with current fieldwork in India and the Muslim communities of Europe. Bohlman's research focuses on Jewish music and modernity. Bohlman also frequently engages in intensive studies of theEurovision Song Contest.[2]
Bohlman is also the Artistic Director of “The New Budapest Orpheum Society” at theUniversity of Chicago.In conjunction with his work with that group,Oxford Universitybestowed the 2009Donald Tovey Prizeon Bohlman andChristine Wilkie Bohlman.[2]Bohlman was inducted into theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciencesas a fellow in 2011,[4]and into theBritish Academyas a corresponding fellow in 2007. In 1997, he was the first ethnomusicologist to receive the Edward J. Dent Medal from theRoyal Musical Association,[2][5]and also received the Berlin Prize from theAmerican Academy in Berlinin 2003, the Derek Allen Prize from theBritish Academyin 2007, and a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching from theUniversity of Chicagoin 1999.[5]Bohlman served as the president of theSociety for Ethnomusicologyfrom 2005 to 2007.[3]In 2014 theUniversity of Kasselawarded him the Rosenzweig professorship.[6]In 2022 he was awarded theBalzan Prizefor Ethnomusicology.
Partial list of books
[edit]- Wie sängen wir Seinen Gesang auf dem Boden der Fremde? Jüdische Musik des Aschkenas zwischen Tradition und Moderne(2019)
- Song Loves the Masses: Herder on Music and Nationalism(2017)
- Revival and Reconciliation: Sacred Music in the Making of European Modernity(2013)
- with Nada Petković,Balkan Epic: Song, History, Modernity(2012)
- Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe(2010)
- Jewish Musical Modernism, Old and New(2009)
- with Marcello Sorce Keller and Loris Azzaroni (eds.),Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean: Interpretation, Performance, Identity(2009)
- Jewish Music and Modernity(2008)
- Music in American Religious Experience(2005)
- with Ronald Michael Radano,Music and the Racial Imagination: Cultural Topics(2005)
- Jüdische Volksmusik: eine mitteleuopäische Geistesgeschichte(2005)
- Excursions in World Music(2004)
- with Martin Stockes,Celtic Modern: Music at the Global Fringe(2003)
- New Music and Modernity: Music and Culture(2003)
- World Music: A Very Short Introduction(2002)
- withOtto Holzapfel,Land Without Nightingales: Music in the Making of German-America(Madison, WI: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2002)
- withOtto Holzapfel,The Folk Songs of Ashkenaz(Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2001; Recent Researches in the Oral Traditions of Music, 6)
- Music and the Racial Imagination(2000-2001)
- Excursions in World Music(1999)
- Enchanting Powers: Music in the World's Religions(1997)
- Central European Folk Music: An Annotated Bibliography of Sources in German(1996)
- Oral Traditions, Israeli Folk Music: Songs of the Early Pioneers(1994)
- Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History(1993)
- The World Center for Jewish Music in Palestine, 1936-1940: Jewish Musical Life on the Eve of World War II(1992)
- withKatherine Bergeron,Disciplining Music: Musicology and its canons(1992)
- withBruno Nettl(eds.),Comparative Musicology and Anthropology of Music: Essays on the History of Ethnomusicology(1991)
- The Land Where Two Streams Flow: Music in the German-Jewish Community of Israel(1989)
- The Study of Folk Music in the Modern World(1988)
References
[edit]- ^Stokes, Martin(2001)."Bohlman, Philip V(ilas)".Grove Music Online.Oxford:Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.48803.(subscription orUK public library membershiprequired)
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- ^"Universität Kassel: Rosenzweig-Professur an Musikwissenschaftler Philip Bohlman – Seminar zu Nationalismus im Eurovision Song Contest".Archived fromthe originalon 2015-02-03.Retrieved2014-04-22.
