Katz, Israel J(oseph)
Katz, Israel J(oseph)
Katz, Israel J(oseph), American ethnomusicologist; b. N.Y., July 21, 1930. He studied at the Univ. of Calif, at Los Angeles with Klaus Wachsmann and Boris Kremenliev (B.A., 1956; Ph.D., 1967, with the diss. Judeo-Spanish Traditional Ballads from Jerusalem: An Ethnomusicological Study; publ. in 2 vols., N.Y., 1972, 1975). He taught at McGill Univ. in Montreal(1968-69) and at Columbia Univ. (1969–75), then at York Coll. and the Graduate Center of the City Univ. of N.Y. (from 1977). He was ed. of Ethnomusicology (1971-72) and co-ed, of Musica Judaica (from 1975).
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