# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-kerman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:54:41.294Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-kerman"
name: "Joseph Kerman"
slug: "joseph-kerman"
description: "Joseph Wilfred Kerman was an American musicologist and music critic. Among the leading musicologists of his generation, his 1985 book Contemplating Music: Challenges to Musicology was described by Philip Brett in The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians as \"a defining moment in the field\". He was Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of California, Berkeley."
tagline: "American musicologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1924-04-03"
deathDate: "2014-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.679626666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "جوزيف كيرمان"
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    title: "چوزيف كيرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kerman"
    title: "Joseph Kerman"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kerman"
    title: "Joseph Kerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kerman"
    title: "Joseph Kerman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جوزف کرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%BC%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ジョゼフ・カーマン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kerman"
    title: "Joseph Kerman"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2917826"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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