Joseph Kerman | |
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| Born | April 3, 1924 London, United Kingdom |
| Died | March 17, 2014 (aged 89) Berkeley, California, U.S. |
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| Organizations | Harvard University |
Joseph Wilfred Kerman (3 April 1924 – 17 March 2014) was an American musicologist and music critic. Among the leading musicologists of his generation, his 1985 book Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology (published in the UK as Musicology) was described by Philip Brett in The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians as "a defining moment in the field".[1] He was Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of California, Berkeley.