UCLA Professor Will Discuss World Music with U of M Honors Students
For release: October 15, 2004
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

Timothy D. Taylor, an associate professor of musicology at UCLA, will present a lecture entitled "Global Pop: The Rise of World Music" to first-year students enrolled in the University of Memphis Honors Program's new Global Challenge course.

The lecture will be Thursday, Oct. 21, during the regular class time, 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m., in the Michael D. Rose Theatre. The public is invited to the free lecture

Taylor is the author of Global Pop: World Music, World Markets, Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture, and numerous articles on popular and classical music.

He is currently writing a book on 500 years of music and difference (to be published by Duke University Press) and a history of music used in advertising from early radio to the present.

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