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Timothy Rommen is the Davidson Kennedy Professor in the College and Vice Provost for the Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a dual appointment as Professor of Music and Africana Studies within the College of Arts & Sciences. His research focuses on Caribbean music, particularly exploring themes such as popular music, sacred music, critical theory, ethics, tourism, and diaspora. He earned his Ph.D. in Music from the University of Chicago in 2002.
Key publications include Mek Some Noise: Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad (2007), which won the Alan P. Merriam Prize, and Funky Nassau: Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music (2011). He co-edited Sun, Sea, and Sound: Music and Tourism in the Circum-Caribbean (2014) and Sounds of Vacation: Political Economies of Caribbean Tourism (2019). His current research investigates Dominica’s musical landscape, analyzing genres like jing ping, cadence-lypso, and bouyon in relation to creole identity and economic pressures.
- Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2002
Rommen’s work bridges ethnomusicology and interdisciplinary studies, with contributions to journals like Popular Music, Journal of Musicology, and Black Music Research Journal. His courses cover global music, Caribbean studies, and ethnomusicological theory.
- Awards: Alan P. Merriam Prize (2008)
He leads the Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology book series and contributes to the Cambridge History of World Music. His research emphasizes the socio-cultural dimensions of music in small island economies and the interplay between local and transnational influences.
