Philip V. Bohlman is an ethnomusicologist working across the aesthetic, religious, and musical borderlands of global encounter. Weaving together research approaches from ethnography and history, he has pursued research over many years in Europe, the Middle East, especially Israel, and South Asia, with comparative studies in the U.S. and with global popular music. Among his most recent books are Song Loves the Masses: Herder on Music and Nationalism (2017), Wie sängen wir Seinen Gesang auf dem Boden der Fremde (2019), and Heiner Mṻller and Heiner Goebbels’s Wolokolamsker Chaussee (2021). Bohlman is also a performer, producing four CD sets as Artistic Director of the New Budapest Orpheum Society, an ensemble-in-residence of the University of Chicago Division of the Humanities. He is the Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Music and the College at the University of Chicago.