Simon Music Center, SM325E
Education
- Ph.D., Musicology, UCLA, 2025
- A.M., Historical Musicology, Harvard University, 2016
- M.A., Musicology, California State University, 2012
- B.A., Music History, Pitzer College, 2008
Matthew Blackmar is assistant professor of music in musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
A musicologist, media/information studies scholar, and classical/pop musician, Blackmar’s research interests orbit the figure of the musical amateur, engaging contemporary digital practice, modern recording engineering and sound design, and nineteenth-century print cultures—each through the critical lenses of the social construction of technology, musical authorship and borrowing, and “intellectual property.”
His two book projects respectively examine the pre-history of the “AI turn”—reconciling hip hop as a digital-musical practice with the privatization and algorithmic automation of copyright administration—and the often-fraught relationship between early international copyright law and the transnational arranging and publishing industries of the nineteenth century.