Peter Jeffery is an American

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Life

Jeffery graduated from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art, and the Performing Arts, in

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, and from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and from

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with a Ph.D. in Music History in 1980. He taught at

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, the

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, and

, and was in 2014 a professor at the

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Lawsuit

On January 25, 1997, Jeffery took his 12-year-old son to a

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concert at the

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. He initially planned to wait in a "parents room" but found it was in use by a warm-up act. He joined his son in the concert hall. It was the first rock concert he had attended. Although he wore

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, at the close of the concert his left ear was

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. He filed a lawsuit against the band, opening acts

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and

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, the Coliseum, the city of New Haven, the ear-plug manufacturer, and the vendor he purchased the ear plugs from.

Awards

* 1985 Alfred Einstein Award of the

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, research grant * 1987 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

''Re-envisioning Past Musical Cultures: Ethnomusicology in the Study of Gregorian Chant''
University of Chicago Press, 1995,
''Ethiopian Christian Chant: an Anthology''
(1993–97, coauthored with Kay Kaufman Shelemay), the three-volume, A-R Editions, Inc., 1993,
''The Study of Medieval Chant: Paths and Bridges, East and West''
Editors

Kenneth Levy Kenneth Jay Levy (February 26, 1927 – August 15, 2013) was an American musicologist who specialized in Medieval, Renaissance and Byzantine music. He was described as "among the world’s authorities on early Christian and Byzantine music". L ...

, Peter Jeffery, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2001,
''The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled: Imagined Rituals of Sex, Death, and Madness in a Biblical Forgery''
Yale University Press, 2007,
''Translating tradition: a chant historian reads Liturgiam authenticam''
Liturgical Press, 2005,

References

External links

Website"Letter from Peter Jeffery"
''Journal of the American Musicological Society'', Vol. 49, No. 1 (Spring, 1996), pp. 175–179 {{DEFAULTSORT:Jeffery, Peter American musicologists Living people Musicians from New York City Brooklyn College alumni Harvard University faculty University of Delaware faculty Princeton University faculty MacArthur Fellows Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Date of birth missing (living people)