skip navigation   Brown Home Brown Home Brown Academics  David
Josephson  Phone: +1 401-863-3948 Phone 2: +1 401-863-3234  My
current research examines the forced emigration of musicians and
music scholars from Nazi and Fascist Europe, 1933-1945. I have
completed a biography on one such scholar, the musicologist
Kathi Meyer-Baer, and published four major articles on various
facets of the subject. I have begun a second book about two
extraordinary organizations that helped émigré music scholars
re-establish themselves and their careers in the United Kingdom
and the United States.   David Josephson received his B.A.,
M.A., and Ph.D. in music from Columbia, where he also directed
the Concert Band for three years and helped edit the journal
Current Musicology. He has taught at Brown since 1972, where he
founded and directed the Brown Early Music Group and chaired the
Music Department in 1979-1985. As chairman he built the Orwig
Music Library, initiated an artists-in-residence program around
a campus-based string