Paul Berliner (ethnomusicologist)
AMERICAN ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST
Paul Berliner (ethnomusicoligist); Paul F. Berliner; Paul Franklin Berliner
Paul Franklin Berliner (born 1946) is an American ethnomusicologist, best known for specializing in African music as well as jazz and other improvisational systems. He is best known for his popular ethnomusicology book on the Zimbabwean mbira, The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe, for which he received the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award.