Kevin Karnes

Kevin C. Karnes is Professor of Music and Vice Provost for the Arts at Emory University (Atlanta). His research explores sounding expressions of identity, difference, and belonging in Eastern and Central Europe from the nineteenth century to the present. His published work includes Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa (Oxford, 2017), Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis Collection (A- R Editions, 2014), and Baltic Musics/Baltic Musicologies: The Landscape since 1991 (with...See more

Kevin C. Karnes is Professor of Music and Vice Provost for the Arts at Emory University (Atlanta). His research explores sounding expressions of identity, difference, and belonging in Eastern and Central Europe from the nineteenth century to the present. His published work includes Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa (Oxford, 2017), Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics: Selections from the Melngailis Collection (A- R Editions, 2014), and Baltic Musics/Baltic Musicologies: The Landscape since 1991 (with Joachim Braun, Routledge, 2009). He is currently working on a new book, Sounds Beyond: Arvo Pärt and the 1970s Soviet Underground , and serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society . See less