Timothy D. Taylor
Professor, Ethnomusicology and Musicology
Popular musics, world music, cultural theory
Ph.D. Musicology, University of Michigan; M.A., 20th Century Music, Queen's University of Belfast; M.M., Clarinet, Yale School of Music; B.A., Music and Northern Studies, Middlebury College
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Timothy D. Taylor is a Professor in the Departments of Ethnomusicology and Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Global Pop: World Music, World Markets (Routledge, 1997), Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture (Routledge, 2001), and Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World (Duke, 2007), and numerous articles on various popular musics, classical musics, and social/cultural theory. His interests include globalization, technology, race, ethnicity, consumption, tourism, and gender. He has received a fellowship from the National Humanities Center, as well as a junior fellowship and the Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. His collection of history writings, Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio, co-edited with Mark Katz and Tony Grajeda, was published in 2012 by Duke University Press. He has recently completed a book, The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture, published by the University of Chicago Press, and is currently working on a book entitled Capitalism, Music, and Social Theory. His article “The Commodification of Music at the Dawn of the Era of Mechanical Music,’” published in Ethnomusicology in 2007, was awarded the Jaap Kunst Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology in 2008. He is an avid performer of Irish traditional music on the flute and can be heard regularly at sessions in southern California.
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