-
I am a musicologist specializing in US popular music and culture. In my recent work, I focus on the interplay between popular music, technology, and identity in order to better understand who listeners, performers, and musicians understand themselves to be in a music culture that is so heavily mediated by technology.
I received a PhD in musicology from Rutgers University, where I was able to pursue these research interests alongside the history and theory of Western Art Music that comprise the program's core.
I currently teach at Rider University, Rutgers University, and Montclair State University. I teach both graduates and undergraduates, online and face-to-face classes, seminars and introductory courses, and popular and classical curricula.
I have two forthcoming publications. The first, which will appear in the Journal of Popular Culture, explores the Mozart myth as it is presented in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus and then parodied in an episode of the Simpsons. The second, which will appear in the Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, examines the earliest iPod silhouette commercials and the notions of freedom they are meant to convey.
I am currently working on a book prospectus - AudioFiles - that synthesizes and analyzes contemporary attitudes about the uses of technology in popular music.
You can contact me at justindburton@gmail.com.
