Jeff Todd Titon

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Jeff Todd Titon

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According to Wikipedia, Jeff Todd Titon is a professor emeritus of music at Brown University. He holds the B.A. from Amherst College; and the M.A. and the Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He taught American literature, folklore, and ethnomusicology in the departments of English and Music at Tufts University , where he co-founded the American Studies program and also the M.A. program in Ethnomusicology. He taught at Brown University where he was director of the Ph.D. program in Ethnomusicology. He held visiting professorships at Amherst College, Carleton College, Berea College, East Tennessee State University, and Indiana University's Folklore Institute. His published books include Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis , Powerhouse for God: Speech, Chant and Song in an Appalachian Baptist Church , and Toward a Sound Ecology: New and Selected Essays . He is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology and general editor of Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples . 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. In 2015, his field recordings were chosen for preservation in the National Recording Registry, Library of Congress. Titon is known for developing collaborative ethnographic research based on reciprocity and friendship, for helping to establish an applied ethnomusicology based in social responsibility, for proposing that music cultures can be understood as ecosystems, for introducing the concepts of musical and cultural sustainability, and for his appeal for a sound commons for all living creatures and his current ecomusicological project of a sound ecology. 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.

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Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples (1986) (151)
Powerhouse for God: Speech, Chant, and Song in an Appalachian Baptist Church (1982) (78)
Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis (1977) (75)
Music and Sustainability: An Ecological Viewpoint (2009) (74)
The Life Story (1980) (71)
The Oxford handbook of applied ethnomusicology (2015) (51)
Bi-musicality as metaphor : A conversation between two disciplines : what do we learn when we learn music from our informants ? (1995) (34)
The American Quest for the Primitive Church. (1990) (29)
SUSTAINABILITY, RESILIENCE, AND ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT FOR APPLIED ETHNOMUSICOLOGY (2015) (22)
Sustainability and Sound: Ecomusicology Inside and Outside the Academy (2014) (21)
THE NATURE OF ECOMUSICOLOGY (2013) (21)
The real thing : Tourism, authenticity, and pilgrimage among the Old Regular Baptists at the 1997 Smithsonian Folklife Festival (1999) (13)
Textual Analysis or Thick Description (2012) (13)
Representation and Authority in Ethnographic Film/Video: Production (1992) (9)
Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes (2001) (8)
Exhibiting Music in a Sound Community (2017) (7)
Stance, Role, and Identity in Fieldwork among Folk Baptists and Pentecostals (1985) (7)
Teaching Blues and Country Music, and Leading an Old‐Time String Band—at an Ivy League University (2009) (7)
Downhome blues lyrics: An anthology from the post-World War II era (1981) (6)
Should ethnomusicology be abolished. Authors' reply (1997) (6)
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AS THE STUDY OF PEOPLE MAKING MUSIC (2015) (6)
Ecology, Phenomenology, and Biocultural Thinking: A Response to Judith Becker (2009) (6)
Tuned Up with the Grace of God (2005) (6)
Thoreau’s ear (2015) (6)
AFTERWORD: Ecomusicology and the Problems in Ecology (2018) (5)
A Conversation with Jeff Todd Titon (2003) (5)
Toward a Sound Ecology (2020) (5)
About Indigenous Perspectivism, Indigenous Sonorism and the Audible Stance. Approach to a Symmetrical Auditory Anthropology (2017) (4)
Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music Revival (2011) (4)
Ethnomusicology and Values: A Reply to Henry Kingsbury (1997) (4)
Powerhouse for God (1990) (3)
Early Downhome Blues: A Musical & Cultural Analysis (1996) (3)
Orality, Commonality, Commons, Sustainability, and Resilience (2016) (3)
Authenticity and Authentication: Mike Seeger, the New Lost City Ramblers, and the Old-Time Music Revival (2013) (3)
Early Down-Home Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis (1980) (3)
Ethnomusicology of downhome blues phonograph records 1926-1930 (1972) (3)
Thematic Pattern in Downhome Blues Lyrics: The Evidence on Commercial Phonograph Records Since World War II (1977) (3)
God's Peculiar People: Women's Voices & Folk Tradition in a Pentecostal Church@@@Diversities of Gifts: Field Studies in Southern Religion (1991) (2)
Zydeco: A Musical Hybrid (1981) (2)
Primitive Baptist Hymns of the Blue Ridge@@@Powerhouse for God. Sacred Speech, Chant, and Song in an Appalachian Baptist Church (1983) (2)
From the Record Review Editor: Cantometrics (1982) (2)
An Introduction to Applied Ethnomusicology (2015) (2)
Letter from Ole Bull to Sara Thorp (2004) (1)
Early Downhome Blues. A Musical Analysis (1980) (1)
A Song from the Holy Spirit (1980) (1)
American musical traditions (2002) (1)
Labels: identifying categories of blues and gospel (2003) (1)
Music and the Us War on Poverty: Some Reflections (2013) (1)
Within Ethnomusicology, Where Is Ecomusicology? Music, Sound, and Environment (2020) (1)
From Blues to Pop: The Autobiography of Leonard "Baby Doo" Caston (1978) (1)
Valuing and De-Valuing Appalachian Music (2014) (1)
Music in the Air Somewhere: The Shifting Borders of West Virginia's Fiddle and Song Tradition (2007) (0)
Catching up with Yesterday (1991) (0)
Performance Practice: Ethnomusicologlcal Perspectives. GERARD BÉHAGUE (1985) (0)
A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle@@@Powerhouse for God (1990) (0)
From the Record Review Editor: Downhome and Urban Blues (1982) (0)
A Context for the Story: A Conversation with Jeff Todd Titon (with Marcia Ostashewski) (2014) (0)
Blues and Gospel Records, 1902-1943@@@Blues Lyric Poetry: An Anthology@@@Riding on a Blue Note: Jazz and American Pop@@@Deep Blues (1986) (0)
From the Record Review Editor: Recent Field Recordings (1984) (0)
Ecojustice, Religious Folklife and a Sound Ecology (2020) (0)
A Sound Economy (2021) (0)
From the Record Review Editor: African American Traditions (1985) (0)
Svanibor Pettan: an Appreciation (2019) (0)
Roots of the Blues@@@Jake Walk Blues (1979) (0)
Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel (review) (2003) (0)
Lily May Ledford. 1988 (1990) (0)
Black Delta Religion. Filmed and edited in Super 8mm by BILL FERRIS and JOSETTE FERRIS (1975) (0)
William Harris, Blind Joe Reynolds, Skip James: Delta Blues, Heavy Hitters 1927-1931@@@Unfinished Boogie: Western Blues Piano 1946-1952 (1981) (0)
Call and Response: SEM President's Roundtable 2018, “Humanities' Responses to the Anthropocene” (2020) (0)
The Legacy of the Blues--Art and Lives of 12 Great Bluesmen (1978) (0)
Goin' up the Country (1977) (0)
From the Record Review Editor: Folk Music Recordings in Series: The John Edwards Memorial Foundation and the Blue Ridge Institute (1985) (0)
Music Library Association Administrative Structure (2003) (0)
Hap Collins of South Blue Hill, Maine: Lobsterman, Craftsman, Painter, Fiddler, Poet (1994) (0)
Powerhouse of God@@@Primitive Baptist Hymns of the Blue Ridge@@@Children of the Heav'nly King (1984) (0)
Art Galbraith, James River Fiddler, "Dixie Blossoms"@@@Old Familiar Tunes: Major Contay and the Canebrake Rattlers (1982) (0)
Ethnography in the study of congregational music (2021) (0)
Foreword (2019) (0)
Albert Collins of South Blue Hill: A Video Portrait (1989) (0)
The Expressive Culture of Sound Communication among Humans and Other Beings (2021) (0)
Setting the Record Straight: Confronting Stereotypes in Historical Appalachian Recordings (2016) (0)
From the Record Review Editor: African American Religious Music (1983) (0)
The Best of Mance Lipscomb (2011) (0)
Talking Folklore: A Conversation with Leaders in the Field (2012) (0)

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