Visiting Scholar at the U of M Will Discuss World Music Feb. 27
For release: February 23, 2004
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

Dr. Timothy D. Taylor, associate professor of music at Columbia University and author of Global Pop: World Music, World Markets, will lecture at the University of Memphis at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, in Patterson Hall, Room 456. His presentation, "World Music Revisited," is free and open to the public.

Taylor began teaching at Columbia in 1996 after stints at Denison University and the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests include popular music and contemporary art music; cultural theory; music as it relates to globalization, postmodernism, colonialism and postcolonialism, gender, race and ethnicity; and technology. He is also interested in Irish traditional music, which he plays on several instruments.

The presentation, part of the Visiting Scholar Program, is sponsored by the University Honors Program and the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities.

For more information, call the Honors Program at 678-2690 or e-mail phancock@memphis.edu

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