Paul Berliner
Author
1946 –
Who is Paul Berliner?
Paul Franklin Berliner is an American ethnomusicologist, best known for specializing in African music as well as jazz and other improvisational systems. He is best known for his popular ethnomusicology book on the Zimbabwean mbira, The Soul of Mbira: music and traditions of the Shona people of Zimbabwe, for which he received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He also published Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation for which he received The Society of Ethnomusicology's Alan Merriam Prize for Outstanding Book in Musicology. Berliner received his Ph.D. from Wesleyan University.
Paul is the oldest of three and was born in Cambridge, MA to Joe and Ann Berliner.
Berliner is Professor of Ethnomusicology at the John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University. He formerly taught at the School of Music of Northwestern University. He has recorded and produced albums of Shona mbira music, and has been recorded as a performer with the Paul Winter Consort. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.
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- Born
- 1946
Cambridge - Also known as
- Paul F. Berliner
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, Wesleyan University
Music
( - 1974) - Doctor of Humane Letters, DePaul University
( - 2003)
- PhD, Wesleyan University
- Employment
- Duke University
- Lived in
- North Carolina
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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