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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. He is currently editing and writing two books: The Social Life of Sound Technologies: A History in Documents, 1878-1945, co-edited with Mark Katz and Tony Grajeda (to be published by Duke University Press); and The Sounds of Capitalism: A History of Music in Advertising, from radio to the present. 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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