MMus, BA, PhD

Programme Leader, Music; Pathway Leader, Popular Music

Office hours: Tuesdays 13.00-15.00; Thursdays 16.00-17.00

Room: Hel 157
Email: justin.williams@anglia.ac.uk

Telephone: 0845 196 5001
International: +44 1223 363271 ext 5001



Justin Williams' research activity page

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 and was recently interviewed by The Guardian for an article on blues player Robert Johnson.

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

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