Jeff Todd Titon

Jeff Todd Titon (born 1943) is a professor emeritus of music at Brown University.[1] He holds the B.A. (1965) from Amherst College; and the M.A. (in English, 1970) and the Ph.D. (in American Studies, 1971) from the University of Minnesota. He taught in the departments of English and Music at Tufts University (1971-1986) and Brown University (1986-2013) where he was director of the Ph.D. program in Ethnomusicology. His published books include Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis (University of Illinois Press, 1977; 2nd edition, University of North Carolina Press, 1994) and Powerhouse for God (University of Texas Press, 1988; 2nd ed. University of Tennessee Press, 2018). He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology (Oxford University Press, 2015) and general editor of Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples (Cengage/Schirmer Books, last revised in English 2016).[2] He was editor of Ethnomusicology, the journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, from 1990-1995. In 1998 he was elected a Fellow of the American Folklore Society. [3] In 2015 his field recordings were chosen for preservation in the National Recording Registry, Library of Congress.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Sisario, Ben (February 28, 2004). "Revisionists Sing New Blues History". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-07-10.
  2. ↑ Gregory F. Barz (2003). Performing religion: negotiating past and present in Kwaya music of Tanzania. Rodopi. p. 91.
  3. ↑ https://www.afsnet.org/page/Fellows?
  4. ↑ "Significant Recording at the Library of Congress Originated by Chance Meeting at Berea College - Berea College". Berea College. 2015-05-13. Retrieved 2018-07-20.


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