Recorded Music
 | Tom Miller
Instructor, Recorded Music |
Courses
Topics in Recorded Music: The History & Culture of Record Players, from Edison to the iPod
Biography
Tom Miller
is an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist with a professional background in radio, theatrical music direction and sound design, museum curation, and publishing. His interests include the history and culture of media and technology, innovation and tradition in popular music around the world, sound shamanism, and the intersection of science, art, and society. He has made field recordings in more than a dozen countries, created audio and multimedia installations for numerous galleries and performance spaces, and is a National Endowment for the Arts award-winning composer and librettist. Dr. Miller has taught at Pratt, Rutgers-Newark, Drew, Barnard, Columbia, and the State University of New York. His writings have been published in the U.S. and Europe by Rolling Stone Press, Houghton Mifflin, University of Washington Press, American Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Press, and many others.
