Marcello Sorce Keller

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Marcello Sorce Keller (born July 20, 1947 in Milan , Italy ) is a Swiss- Italian musician , music historian and music ethnologist .

Origin and education

Sorce Keller studied composition at the Conservatorio di Milano and social sciences at the Università degli Studi di Milano . With a thesis on the oral transmission of the regional music of Trient (Italy), he received a Ph.D in musicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .

Music research and education

Sorce Keller's research activities include studies in philosophical aesthetics , music history , music ethnology , music sociology and music politics. He optionally teaches at universities in Switzerland, Italy, the USA, Australia and Malta. For several years he has been producing the program Note di libertà for Italian-speaking Swiss radio , which is committed to musical diversity and its communication to a wide audience.

Publications

Sorce Keller published articles in encyclopedias (including the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music ), academic anthologies and magazines. Further publications are:

  • Musica e sociologia . Ricordi, Milan 1996
  • Note in libertà. Storie di musica e musicisti Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana, Rete due, Lugano 2005
  • edited with Philip V. Bohlman and Loris Azzaroni: Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean. Interpretation, performance, identity . Clueb, Bologna 2009
  • What Makes Music European. Looking beyond sound . Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Sorce Keller, Marcello
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-Italian musician, music historian, music ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan