 Sepopo's head musician, from the book Seven Years in South Africa, volume 2, page 302 Image by Johann Varrone, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed Public domain |
Joe And AnnPaul Berliner (ethnomusicologist) Paul Berliner (ethnomusicologist) American ethnomusicologist (born 1946) Paul Franklin Berliner (born 1946)[1] 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.… (Source: Wikipedia)
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