Jeff Todd Titon

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Jeff Todd Titon (born 1943) is a professor emeritus of

University of Texas Press, 1988; 2nd ed. University of Tennessee Press, 2018), and Toward a Sound Ecology: New and Selected Essays (Indiana University Press, 2020). He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology (Oxford University Press, 2015) and general editor of Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples (Cengage/Schirmer Books, 6th ed., 2016).[2] He was editor of Ethnomusicology, the journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, from 1990-1995. In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the American Folklore Society, and in 2020, he received their Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award.[3]

In 2015, his field recordings were chosen for preservation in the National Recording Registry, Library of Congress.[4] Titon is known for developing collaborative ethnographic research based on reciprocity and friendship,[5] for helping to establish an applied ethnomusicology based in social responsibility,[6] for proposing that music cultures can be understood as ecosystems,[7] for introducing the concepts of musical and cultural sustainability,[8] and for his appeal for a sound commons for all living creatures and his current ecomusicological project of a sound ecology.[9] His definition of ethnomusicology as "the study of people making music"—making the sounds they call music, and making music as a cultural domain—is widely accepted within the field.[10]

References

  1. ^ Sisario, Ben (February 28, 2004). "Revisionists Sing New Blues History". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-07-10.
  2. ISBN 9789042008274
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  3. ^ "The American Folklore Society". 8 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Significant Recording at the Library of Congress Originated by Chance Meeting at Berea College - Berea College". Berea College. 2015-05-13. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  5. ^ "Knowing Fieldwork," in Shadows in the Field, 2nd. ed., ed. Gregory Barz and Timothy Cooley. New York, Oxford University Press, 2007.
  6. ^ "Music, the Public Interest, and the Practice of Ethnomusicology," Ethnomusicology 36 (3), 1992: 315-322.
  7. ^ Worlds of Music, p. 9. New York: Schirmer Books, 1984.
  8. ^ "Music and Sustainability: An Ecological Viewpoint," the world of music 51 (1), 2009: 119-137.
  9. ^ "Appeal for a Sound Commons for All Living Creatures," Smithsonian Folkways Magazine, Fall/Winter 2012.
  10. ^ Worlds of Music, 2nd. ed., p. xxi. New York: Schirmer Books, 1992.

Relevant literature

  • Titon, Jeff Todd. 2020. Toward a Sound Ecology: New and Selected Essays. Indiana University Press. 324 pages.
    ISBN 978-0253049681
    (hard cover).


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