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Harvard University; University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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His scholarship focuses on the musical and cultural production of the Caribbean and the Americas, and their circulation in the wider world, with particular attention to digital technologies. He is currently writing a book on music, networked media and transnational youth culture. He co-edited and contributed to the book Reggaeton (Duke University Press, 2009) and has published in journals such as Popular Music and Callaloo, while writing for popular outlets including The Wire and the Boston Phoenix.
Marshall holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has taught courses at Brandeis, Brown, University of Chicago, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also an active DJ and maintains and runs the blog and website.
Wayne Marshall was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He specializes in the intersections between Caribbean and American popular music
He received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard and his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007. His dissertation, "Routes, Rap, Reggae: Hearing the Histories of Hip-hop and Reggae Together", examines the musical interplay between Jamaica and the United States in the late twentieth century.
He has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mellon Fellow 2009-2011), Brandeis (Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Ethnomusicology 2007-2009), and the University of Chicago, is exploring the nascent field of "techno-musicology," and maintains the blog "Wayne&Wax".
He currently is a lecturer of Music in the Department of Music at Harvard University.
