Mark Slobin
Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus
Wesleyan University

Mark Slobin is the Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus at Wesleyan University and the author or editor of many books, on Afghanistan and Central Asia, eastern European Jewish music, film music, American music, and ethnomusicology theory, two of which have received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award: Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World and Tenement Songs: Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants. He has been President of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Society for Asian Music. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He retired in 2016 after 45 years at Wesleyan and lives in Manhattan.

Selected Publications

Tenement Songs: Popular Music of the Jewish Immigrants

Chosen Voices: The Story of the American Cantorate

Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World

Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West

Motor City Music: A Detroiter Looks Back

American Klezmer: its Roots and Offshoots