Exploring Ethnomusicology with Clarinetist/Author/Professor Timothy D. Taylor
Timothy D. Taylor, a professor in the Departments of Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, and Musicology at UCLA, is an interdisciplinary social scientist who studies capitalism and other economic issues, globalization, consumer culture, and technology as they relate to music. He is also an accomplished Irish traditional flute player and can be heard regularly at sessions in southern California.
Tim is the author of over 50 articles and chapters, and many books, including: Global Pop: World Music, World Markets, Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture, Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World, The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture, Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present, Music in the World: Selected Essays, and editor, with Mark Katz and Tony Grajeda, of Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio. Tim's new book, Working Musicians: Labor and Creativity in Film and Television Production, published by Duke University Press, is an ethnographic study of film and television musicians in Los Angeles.
Original Release Date: May 16, 2023
Remastered: 2026