Michael Frishkopf

Michael Frishkopf, Professor of Music, Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta (Canada), as well as Adjunct Professor at the University for Development Studies (Ghana), is an ethnomusicologist, performer, and composer. A graduate of Yale College (BS Mathematics, 1984), Tufts University (MA Ethnomusicology, 1989), and the University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D. Music, 1999), Dr. Frishkopf’s ethnomusicological research interests include various topics connected to health including: cross-cultural ethnographic studies of music and healing; AI-generation of adaptive therapeutic soundscapes; Chinese music Five Element music therapy; music and medicine for integrative health; music for global health awareness; and music for global human development and social wellbeing using a participatory action research paradigm (m4ghd.org). His research foci include music of the Arab world; Sufi music; sound in Islamic ritual performance; music and religion; the sociology of musical taste; social network analysis; (virtual [world) music]; digital music repositories; machine learning for sound recognition, music information retrieval; and music cognition.