# Mark Slobin

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{{short description|American scholar and ethnomusicologist}}
'''Mark Slobin''' is an American scholar and [ethnomusicologist](/source/ethnomusicologist) who has written extensively on the subject of [East European](/source/East_European) [Jewish music](/source/Jewish_music) and [klezmer](/source/klezmer) music, as well as the music of Afghanistan, where he conducted research beginning in 1967.  He is Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus at [Wesleyan University](/source/Wesleyan_University), where he taught both music and [American Studies](/source/American_Studies) from 1971 to 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://markslobin.com/|title=Mark Slobin|website=markslobin.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/mslobin/profile.html | title=Mark Slobin - Faculty, Wesleyan University }}</ref>

He has been the president of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the [Society for Asian Music](/source/Society_for_Asian_Music).<ref>Jewish currents - Volume 32 - Page 26 Morning Freiheit Association - 1978 "Editor of Asian Music, the journal of the Society for Asian Music, and vice-president of the Society for Ethnomusicology, he is currently researching immigrant music in the USA."</ref> Two of his books on Jewish music have won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.library.yale.edu/judaica/site/conferences/jewishmusic/bios.html#slobin|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106103355/http://www.library.yale.edu/judaica/site/conferences/jewishmusic/bios.html#slobin|archive-date=2017-01-06|title=Biographies of Conference Speakers|access-date=2017-01-05}} Mark Slobin]" [speaker bio] (2003). Conference: "Celebrating Jewish Music at Yale University", April&nbsp;12-13, 2003. Yale University Library. library.yale.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-05.</ref>

In 1981 and 2001, he edited and reissued collections of the [Ukrainian](/source/Ukraine) [Jewish](/source/Jewish) ethnomusicologist [Moses Beregovsky](/source/Moses_Beregovsky).

==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.)
* Music in the Culture of Northern Afghanistan. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. (1976)

== Documentary ==
* 1981 "Number 7: They All Know It," video, as project supervisor, script co-writer.
* 1983 "Music in the Afghan North," video
* 1986 "More than a Singer," project director, script consultant
* 2003 Afghanistan Untouched, 2-cd set of field recordings, Traditional Crossroads.

==Further reading==
Marcello Sorce Keller, “Mark Slobin”, in ''Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart''. Personenteil XV. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2006, 914–915.

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2017/06/29/slobins-afghanistan-music-recordings-field-notes-archived-online/ "Slobin’s Afghanistan Music Recordings, Field Notes Archived Online"]
* [https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Ccontext_detail%7C3568094 "The Mark Slobin Fieldwork Archive: Music in the Afghan North, 1967-1972"]
* [http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/robinson/010830.slobin.html An Interview] on Klezmershack with Slobin on Klezmer Music and musicologist Moshe Beregovskii.

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