Renowned ethnomusicologist Prof. Philip V. Bohlman delivered a keynote speech on the opening day of the “Musicology Forum 2025” at TNUA on June 6.
Papers were delivered at the two-day forum, which was organized by the Department of Traditional Music and the Graduate Institute of Musicology.
Renowned ethnomusicologist Prof. Philip V. Bohlman delivered a keynote speech on the opening day of the “Musicology Forum 2025” at TNUA on June 6.
Papers were delivered at the two-day forum, which was organized by the Department of Traditional Music and the Graduate Institute of Musicology.
The keynote speaker, Prof. Bohlman, is particularly interested in exploring the interstices between music and religion, music, race, and colonial encounter, and music and nationalism. The study of Jewish music in modernity has provided a primary focus for his research for four decades.
He is Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, Music and the Humanities in the College at the University of Chicago. Since 2009, he has taught and conducted workshops in Germany at the University of Hildesheim and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, where he is also an Honorary Professor. He received the Balzan Prize in 2022 in recognition of his contribution to musicology.
The speech that Prof. Bohlman delivered at the forum was titled “Sounding Sacred Journey: Crossing Sonic Borderlands in an Endangered World,” leading the audience through an exploration of cultures of Europe, South Asia and the Middle East.