Thomas Solomon

Thomas Solomon is Associate Professor in the Grieg Academy-Department of Music at the University of Bergen, Norway and co-coordinator of the Ethnomusicology in Uganda Projects. He has previous taught at New York University, University of Minnesota and Istanbul Technical University. He has done eld research in Bolivia on musical imaginations of ecology, place and identity, and in Istanbul on place and identity in Turkish hip-hop. His publications include articles in the journals Ethnomusicology, Popular Music, European Journal of Cultural Studies, and Yearbook for Traditional Music, as well numerous papers in edited volumes. He is also editor of Music and Identity in Norway and Beyond: Essays Commemorating Edvard Grieg the Humanist (Fagbokforlaget, Bergen 2011).