Keynote Speaker.

 

Dr. Timothy Taylor

UCLA, Department of Ethnomusicology 

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Timothy D. Taylor is a Professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous articles and books including: Global Pop: World Music, World Markets (Routledge, 1997), Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture (Routledge, 2001), Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the

World (Duke, 2007), The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture (Chicago, 2012), Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present (Chicago, 2016), Music in the World: Selected Essays (Chicago, 2017), and editor, with Mark Katz and Tony Grajeda, of Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio (Duke, 2012). He is also an accomplished Irish traditional flute player and can be heard regularly at sessions in southern California.