Tim J. Anderson, Assistant Professor PhD, Northwestern University, 1998 MA, Northwestern University, 1993 BA, University of Arizona, 1991 Courses: New Media Technologies, Communication Criticism and Analysis, Popular Music Industries, Postindustrialism and the Humanities

Dr. Anderson's research specializes in researching how new media practices and technologies transform, affect and negotiate those institutions and practices that make music popular. In 2006 he published Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording (University of Minnesota Press). The book was awarded a certificate of merit in the category of "Best Research in General History of Recorded Sound" by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections in 2007. Dr. Anderson has also published essays in Cultural Studies and the Questions of Method (Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2006), and Movie Music: The Film Reader (Routledge: London, 2003), as well as journals such as Spectator, The Velvet Light Trap, Stanford Humanities Review and the Journal of American Music. In 1996 his essay,"Reforming Jackass Music: The Problematic Aesthetics of Early American Film Music Accompaniment" won first prize from the Society for Cinema Studies for student writing and was subsequently published in 1997 in Cinema Journal. He has also been a regular contributor to the online journal Flow and in 2006 accepted a position to be come a charter member of the MediaCommons editorial board. If you are interested in his classes and some of his other random thoughts, he keeps recent syllabi and sundry notes at commanderson.com. Dr. Anderson's current research is on how the American music industry has had to re-articulate the vision of musicians, audiences and its products in the wake of recent social and technological changes such as the rise of file sharing, the ubiquity of broadband networks and the rise of online social networking platforms as part of our daily lives. He continues to write on music and media, with a forthcoming chapter in Mad Men: Dream Come True TV (I.B. Tauris, 2010).

 

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