Faculty Member, Music and Performing Arts
Principal Lecturer - Popular Music
About
Justin Williams gained degrees from Stanford University, King's College, London, and the University of Nottingham. He has taught previously at Leeds College of Music and was a postdoctoral fellow at Lancaster University at the Centre for Mobilities Research.
He has presented research to a number of international conferences, and has been invited to speak at a number of symposia and colloquia, including the University of Leipzig, University of British Columbia, University of Minnesota, Oxford Brookes University, Leeds College of Music and the University of Wuppertal.
His teaching and research interests include hip-hop culture, popular music, musical borrowing, film music, jazz, music and geography, mobility and sound studies, and the analysis of record production. He is currently writing a book on musical borrowing in hip-hop for University of Michigan Press.
He is keen to supervise research in the areas of:
Popular music
Hip-hop culture
Jazz
Music and mobility
Analysis of record production
Musical borrowing and digital sampling
Contact Information
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