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Frederick Moehn is a Senior Lecturer in Music at King's College London, based in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the King’s Brazil Institute. He holds a BA from Berklee College of Music, an MA and PhD in Music from New York University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil. His research focuses on ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, and music in Latin America, Lusophone Africa (especially Angola), and the U.S., with emphases on race, class, gender, music technologies, and aging. He has taught at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Stony Brook University, Columbia University, and NYU.
Research interests include music's role in social transitions, post-colonial contexts, and music's interplay with race and identity. Notable projects include studies on Rio's music scene, Angolan-Brazilian musical collaborations, and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. He has received the Jaap Kunst Prize and multiple grants from FAHSS for interdisciplinary research. Moehn also engages publicly through media (e.g., Afropop Worldwide) and academic committees (e.g., Brazilian Studies Association, Society for Ethnomusicology).
His teaching covers ethnomusicology, world music, and research methods. Current projects include editing a volume on bossa nova in the U.S. and exploring music and aging. The King’s Brazil Institute supports his interdisciplinary work on Lusophone musical cultures.
