Matthew Day Blackmar is a musicologist, musician and sound scholar whose research interests orbit the figure of the musical amateur, engaging nineteenth-century print cultures, material cultures of twentieth-century recording engineering and sound design, and the media archaeology of twenty-first-century digital-musical practice. His work has appeared in the Thurnauer Schriften zum Musiktheater, Musicology Review and Sensate: A Journal of Experiments in Critical Media Practice; his research has been recognized via the Ingolf Dahl Award (American Musicological Society) and the Musicology Review annual article prize. Prior to graduate study, Matthew worked as a performing and recording musician in Los Angeles, where he contributed keyboards, programming and string arrangements to pop, hip-hop and heavy-metal recordings.
Matthew Blackmar
Assistant Professor of Music, Indiana University
Conducting
Graduate study and training in choral, orchestral, or wind conducting
Ethnomusicology
The study of global musical traditions through performance training, research, and field work
Global Jazz Studies
Jazz performance and musicianship courses are paired with African American Studies
Music Composition
Mentorship in the creation and realization of music for concerts, opera, and visual media
Music Education
Preparation for music educators leading to a BA and teaching credential in just four years
Music Industry
A leadership-focused professional degree which prepares students to transform the creative, entrepreneurial, and executive structures of the music industry
Musicology
The scholarly study of the histories, cultures, and critical interpretations of music and music-making
Music Performance
Study and training towards professional performance careers in Western classical music