Timothy D. Taylor is a professor in the Department of Ethnomusicology at UCLA. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including: Global Pop: World Music, World Markets (Routledge, 1997), Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture (Routledge, 2001), Beyond Exoticism: Western Music and the World (Duke, 2007), The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture (Chicago, 2012), Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present (Chicago, 2016), Music in the World: Selected Essays (Chicago, 2017), and editor, with Mark Katz and Tony Grajeda, of Music, Sound, and Technology in America: A Documentary History of Early Phonograph, Cinema, and Radio (Duke, 2012). Current book projects include an ethnographic study of film and television musicians in Los Angeles, and co-editing, with Anna Morcom, The Oxford Handbook of Economic Ethnomusicology.
