Theo Cateforis
Assistant Professor
20th-century American popular music, jazz, and society

Theo Cateforis is an Assistant Professor of Music History and Cultures in the Fine Arts Department at Syracuse University. His research is in the areas of American Music, Popular Music Studies and Twentieth-Century Art Music. Professor Cateforis’s publications include the edited anthology The Rock History Reader (Routledge, 2007) and a forthcoming book Are We Not New Wave? Popular Music and Modernity at the Turn of the 1980s (University of Michigan Press). His articles and reviews have appeared in American Music, The Journal of Popular Music Studies and Ethnomusicology and in the collections Musics of Multicultural America (Schirmer, 1997) and Progressive Rock Reconsidered (Routledge, 2002). He has also delivered papers at the meetings of the American Musicological Society, American Studies Association, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Society for American Music, Society for Ethnomusicology, Feminist Theory and Music and numerous other conferences. In addition to his scholarly work, Professor Cateforis has been a regular “record reviews” contributor to the highly regarded rock music magazine The Big Takeover since 1994.

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