Judith R. Cohen | |
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| Born | Judith Rita Cohen December 9, 1949 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | ethnomusicologist, music educator, performer |
| Children | 1 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.A., English Literature, McGill University (1971) B.F.A., Music, Concordia University (1975) M.A., Medieval Studies, University of Montreal (1980) PhD, Ethnomusicology, University of Montreal (1989) |
| Thesis | Judeo-Spanish Songs in the Sephardic Communities of Montreal and Toronto: Survival, Function and Change (1988) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Ethnomusicology |
| Sub-discipline | Medieval music, Judeo-Spanish song, traditional music of the Balkans and French-Canada, pan-European balladry |
| Website | judithcohen |
Judith Rita Cohen (born December 9, 1949) is a Canadian ethnomusicologist, music educator, and performer. Her research interests include Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) songs; medieval and traditional music from the Balkans, Portugal, French Canada, and Yiddish; pan-European balladry; and songs from Crypto-Jewish regions in Portugal. She has received numerous research and travel grants to do fieldwork in Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Israel, Turkey, Greece, France, Belgium, Canada, and the United States, and has published many journal articles, papers, and book chapters. She plays a variety of medieval musical instruments, and sings and performs as part of her lectures and in concerts and solo recitals. She is also the editor of the Alan Lomax Spanish collection maintained by the Association for Cultural Equity.
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