Prof Tyler Bickford - "Adult Taste and the Business Models of Independent U.S. Children’s Musicians in the 2000s” Wed Sept 28 a

Tyler Bickford is professor of children’s literature and childhood studies in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Trained as an ethnomusicologist, his research focuses on children’s media, especially popular music and digital technology, using ethnographic and cultural studies methods. He is the author of Tween Pop: Children’s Music and Public Culture (Duke University Press, 2020) and Schooling New Media: Music, Language, and Technology in Children’s Culture (Oxford University Press, 2017). His writing has appeared in Popular Music, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Ethnomusicology, Journal of Folklore Research, Journal of Consumer Culture, Current Musicology, Journal of the Society for American Music, and several edited volumes. He is the recipient of an ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for Tween Pop, which was also a 2022 Children’s Literature Association Recommended Book. Schooling New Media received honorable mention for the Iona and Peter Opie Prize from the American Folklore Society.