Mark Slobin

Author of Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction

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About the Author

Mark Slobin is a professor of music at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World (2000) and Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West (1993, 2000)

Works by Mark Slobin

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Folk Music: A Very Short Introduction (2010) 59 copies

Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West (1993) 30 copies, 1 review

Old Jewish folk music : the collections and writings of Moshe Beregovski (1982) 29 copies, 1 review

Tenement Songs: The Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants (1982) 26 copies

Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate (1990) 19 copies, 1 review

American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots (2002) 17 copies

Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World (2000) 13 copies, 1 review

Retuning Culture: Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe (1996) 13 copies

Global Soundtracks: Worlds of Film Music (2008) 5 copies

Music in the Culture of Northern Afghanistan (Viking Fund publications in anthropology) (1976) 4 copies

Jewish Instrumental Folk Music: The Collection and Writings of Moshe Beregovski with CD (Audio) (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, & Art) (2001) 3 copies

Music at Wesleyan: From Glee Club to Gamelan (Garnet Books) (2010) 3 copies

Kirgiz Instrumental Music (1969) 3 copies

Motor City Music: A Detroiter Looks Back (2018) 3 copies

Emily's songbook : music in 1850s Albany (2011) 2 copies

Music of Central Asia and of the Volga-Ural Peoples (Teaching Aids for the Study of Inner Asia, No. 5) 1 copy

A Survey of Early Jewish-American Sheet Music (1898–1921) 1 copy

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Canonical name: Slobin, Mark
Birthdate: 1943
Gender: male
Occupations: klezmer
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Detroit, USA
Associated Place (for map): Detroit, USA

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Subcultural sounds : micromusics of the West by Mark Slobin

Very nice effort to study (in an ethnological manner) the complex system of relationship between different musics all around the world, thanks to the very useful notions of superculture, subculture, interculture.

May 16, 2023

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Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate (Music in American Life) by Mark Slobin