James Porter (12)

Professor of music, specialising in the music of Scotland. James Porter was educated at the universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh and was a British Council Fellow at the Academy of Music in both Prague and Brno (1964-65).From 1966 to 1968 he was lecturer in music at the University of Edinburgh, from 1968 to 1996 Professor of Music at the University of California, Los Angeles, and from 1996 to 2002 Professor of Scottish Ethnology at the University of Aberdeen.