Background
Taylor, Timothy Dean was born on March 17, 1961 in Lansing, Michigan, United States. Son of James Lee Taylor and Margaret Jane Lundeen.
(Global Pop examines the rise of "world musics" and "world...)
Global Pop examines the rise of "world musics" and "world beat", and some of the musicians associated with these recent genres such as Peter Gabriel, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Johnny Clegg. Drawing on a wide range of sources - academic, popular, cyber, interviews, and the music itself - Global Pop charts an accessible path through many of the issues and contradictions surrounding the contemporary movement of people and musics worldwide. Global Pop examines the range of discourses employed in and around world music, demonstrating how the central concept of authenticity is wielded by musicians, fans, and other listeners, and looks at some of these musics in detail, examining ways they are caught up in forms of domination and resistance. The book also explores how some cross-cultural collaborations may fashion new musics and identities through innovative combinations of sounds and styles.
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( In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how we...)
In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures’ understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term “exoticism” glosses over such differences in many studies of western music. Beyond Exoticism encompasses a range of musical genres and musicians, including Mozart, Beethoven, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Maurice Ravel, Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, Bally Sagoo, and Bill Laswell as well as opera, symphony, country music, and “world music.” Yet, more than anything else, it is an argument for expanding the purview of musicology to take into account not only composers’ lives and the formal properties of the music they produce but also the larger historical and cultural forces shaping both music and our understanding of it. Beginning with a focus on musical manifestations of colonialism and imperialism, Taylor discusses how the “discovery” of the New World and the development of an understanding of self as distinct from the other, of “here” as different from “there,” was implicated in the development of tonality, a musical system which effectively creates centers and margins. He describes how musical practices signifying nonwestern peoples entered the western European musical vocabulary and how Darwinian thought shaped the cultural conditions of early-twentieth-century music. In the era of globalization, new communication technologies and the explosion of marketing and consumption have accelerated the production and circulation of tropes of otherness. Considering western music produced under rubrics including multiculturalism, collaboration, hybridity, and world music, Taylor scrutinizes contemporary representations of difference. He argues that musical interpretations of the nonwestern other developed hundreds of years ago have not necessarily been discarded; rather they have been recycled and retooled.
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(In Strange Sounds, Timothy D. Taylor explains the wonder ...)
In Strange Sounds, Timothy D. Taylor explains the wonder and anxiety provoked by a technological revolution that began in the 1940s and gathers steam daily. Taylor discusses the ultural role of technology, its use in making music, and the inevitable concerns about "authenticity" that arise from electronic music. Informative and highly entertaining for both music fans and scholars, Strange Sounds is a provocative look at how we perform, listen to, and understand music today.
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Taylor, Timothy Dean was born on March 17, 1961 in Lansing, Michigan, United States. Son of James Lee Taylor and Margaret Jane Lundeen.
Bachelor, Middlebury College, 1983. Master of Music, Yale School Music, 1985. Master of Arts, University Michigan, 1990.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1993. Master of Arts, Queens University Belfast, 1990.
Assistant professor Denison University, Granville, Ohio, 1993—1994, University California, Berkeley, 1994—1996. Assistant professor, associate professor Columbia University, New York City, 1996—2004. Associate professor University of California at Los Angeles, 2004—2005, professor, since 2005.
(Global Pop examines the rise of "world musics" and "world...)
( In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how we...)
(In Strange Sounds, Timothy D. Taylor explains the wonder ...)
Member of British Forum Ethnomusicology, American Studies Association, International Association Study Popular Music, Society Ethnomusicology, American Anthropological Association.
Married Sherry Beth Ortner, July 25, 1994.