In this interview Mark Slobin discusses topics including: the music of his childhood in a Jewish family in Detroit, MI; studying music at the University of Michigan (B.A., M.A., PhD); work as faculty in the music department at Wesleyan (1971-2016); work in ethnomusicology, his published works included Music at Wesleyan: From Glee Club to Gamelan (2010); shaping the PhD programs in the music department; work on the Honors and Rights and Responsibilities committees; the similarities and differences of the Wesleyan student body over the decades; colleagues Dick Winslow and David McAllester's contrbiutions to the music department's graduate programs; the international scope of Wesleyan's music department; the building and use of the Arts Center (1973); experience as a faculty member at Wesleyan, particularly the University's sabbatical policy