# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-blacking
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:43:22.078Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-blacking"
name: "John Blacking"
slug: "john-blacking"
description: "John Anthony Randoll Blacking was a British ethnomusicologist and social anthropologist. Blacking began his career with a ground-breaking, 22-month study of the culture and music making of the Venda people of northern South Africa, from 1956 to 1958. In 1965 Blacking became a professor and head of the social anthropology department at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. In 1970 he was appointed chair of the social anthropology department at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he developed a vibrant program in ethnomusicology, the first in Europe."
tagline: "British ethnomusicologist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/John_Blacking%2C_ICTM_Bulletin_April_1990.png/330px-John_Blacking%2C_ICTM_Bulletin_April_1990.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-10-22"
deathDate: "1990-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.57
  momentum:             2.622432859399685
  historical:           5.495430666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blacking"
    title: "John Blacking"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blacking"
    title: "John Blacking"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blacking"
    title: "John Blacking"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_Randall_Blacking"
    title: "John Anthony Randall Blacking"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%84%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "جان بلکینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blacking"
    title: "John Blacking"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15130780"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump